Ecopak, a Bulgarian packaging and recovery organisation, has announced that it will invest more than €200,000 in new equipment for its glass recycling installation.??
The organisation was set up in February 2004 by 18 Bulgarian and multinational companies initially, which invested 3.8 million levs (€1.9 million) for its first glass sorting line, which was launched in July 2010 in Western Bulgaria.
In a statement, Ecopak announced that the optical sorting equipment, which comes from Italy, will sort glass by colour and improve the purity of the raw materials to 99.5%.