Europe’s glass industry is actively working towards the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 – but how will it achieve this, and what progress has it made? It is only relatively recently that the glass industry has begun to proactively communicate on concrete commitments and actions undertaken by the container glass industry in Europe on decarbonization. Improving the glass recycling stream means focusing on better methods of collecting glass from consumers in order to increase the volume and quality of collected glass. Indeed, according to a 2023 ReLoop report entitled ‘Reinventing Glass’, reusable glass bottles produce 85% fewer carbon emissions than their single-use counterparts, 75% fewer carbon emissions than plastic (PET), and 57% fewer carbon emissions than aluminium cans. CONCLUSIONTo summarize, achieving Net Zero in the glass industry requires a focus on multiple enabling conditions – there is no one single ‘silver bullet’.