This past year we increased the number of glass container recycling projects in México by 24 percent versus 2007 by carrying out 226 projects.

Through our glass collection efforts for recycling we created approximately 470 direct jobs and 2,350 indirect jobs.

Green CONALEP

In April we began the solid waste separation program with the National College for Professional and Technology Education (CONALEP) an upper level educational institution in México by inviting the participation of students, teachers and administrative personnel in their 13 campuses in Nuevo León.

Other agreements that stand out were signed with Grupo Palace Resorts (Cancún, Quintana Roo), the city of Acatzingo, Puebla, the Athletic Club in Hidalgo as well the establishing of the Ecology Patrol in the city of Querétaro, as only a few examples.

We convert glass into help

Through our recycling efforts we support noble causes by transforming the collected material into donations in kind that we deliver directly to non profit institutions, associations and organizations.

An example of this was the delivery of thousands of diapers to the “Casa de la Amistad”, a non profit institution that supports low income children who suffer form cancer.

Success story – recycle to help

Since 2002 Vidriera Querétaro has supported this program for the la “Casa Hogar San Pablo IAP” for the purpose of helping cover the needs of the most deserving patients with differing degrees of mental disorders.

a. Objectives:

• Generate economic benefits to help the operations of the “Casa Hogar San Pablo IAP”. 
• Collect and recycle glass containers from restaurants, bars, hotels and special event ballrooms.
• Avoid piracy and adulteration of alcoholic beverages using discarded glass containers.
• Achieve a permanent and self-financing campaign.

b. Participants:

• “Casa Hogar San Pablo IAP”
• Volunteers from the State Supreme Court of Querétaro
• The National Chamber of Restaurants and Prepared Foods (CANIRAC).
• Vidriera Querétaro (a Vitro subsidiary)

c. Results: