“enviromentally Friendly” or “eco” Glass Filter Media Should be Recycled From UK Glass- Durafilter is 100% British

The UK has now managed to raise its recycling levels a great deal in the last ten years – but there is still a long way to go in comparision to other European countries liek Germany, Denmark and Holland.

However the question remains what happens with the materials that you have carefully sorted? many of these materials are in fact shipped all the way to China for futher sorting and disposal

We at www.pool-maintenance.co.uk are helping to close the loop. Currently Britain has an excess of Green glass caused by the importation of wine bottles. We are using some of this recycled glass in place of sand which is a finite material in fitration systems for swimming pools to indusrtial aplications. Our  Durafilter recycled glass media is made from 100% recycled British Glass www.durafilter.co.uk

A study by leading experts Aqua Enviro concluded that:

“In order to reprocess recycled glass to PAS 102 standard approximately 73 kg CO2/tonne of media is produced compared to 2 kg CO2/tonne of silica sand. However, when the application benefit is taken into account, this work has shown that replacing sand with glass as a filtration media delivers savings which may equate to as much as 1,261 kg CO2/tonne/annum of media produced, resulting in a substantial net environmental benefit. These CO2 savings arise largely from the superior performance of glass and resultant reduced pump run times.”

We are proud to do our small bit to save the enviroment.