West Yorkshire’s Window Installers Invited to use Free Glass Recycling Service and Fund Good Causes

A Morley-based manufacturer of integral blinds for windows and doors is encouraging local glazing installers to use its free service to recycle their waste double and triple glazed units, reducing landfill waste costs and help to support good causes in the process.

For more than five years, Morley Glass has been collecting IGUs (insulating glass units) removed by its customers during window and door replacement work across the UK and crushing them into a high quality raw material called cullet. This can be used relatively easily as a raw material for manufacturing new glass.

All the money that Morley Glass generates through the sale of cullet to its glass producer partner, Saint-Gobain Glass, who operate a factory at Eggborough near Selby, goes into its fund called GreenVision. This provides grants to all kinds of groups, individuals and charities who are working to improve their communities in schemes with an environmental or social focus.

But it is not just Morley Glass customers who can benefit from this free service. The company is now inviting any local window and door installers, regardless of whether they buy its products, to drop off their post-consumer IGUs so they can be crushed to raise money for the GreenVision fund.

Ian Short, Managing Director at Morley Glass said: “The more post-consumer glass units we can crush, the more money we can donate to good causes – it’s that simple.

“So, if you are a window and door installer operating in West Yorkshire, and you would like to help us be able to provide more grants to local organisations and individuals, as well as save money on your waste disposal costs, we would love to take your waste IGUs providing you can bring them to us. We are located close to the Gildersome interchange on the Leeds 27 Industrial Estate, so getting to our HQ to drop off your glass is really easy from the M62 and M621.”

Morley Glass is a sustainability pioneer in the UK window industry having successfully created the first successful scheme of its kind for recycling IGUs. It co-designed and installed an innovative machine capable of taking fully intact double or triple glazed units, crushing the glass whilst separating out the spacer bar framing and sealant, and generating a useable bagged raw material at the end.

The company is the UK’s largest manufacturer of double and triple glazed units which feature Venetian, pleated or blackout blinds between the panes of glass. A team of 108 people working at Morley Glass’s 53,000 sq. ft. factory produce up to 4,000 units every week, which are sold under its Uni-Blinds brand.