WASTE REDUCTION Waste Management, Landfill & Recycling

Carib Glassworks Limited (CGL), the glass manufacturing arm of the newly established ANSA Packaging, a subsidiary of the ANSA McAL Group, firmly places the ‘E’ in ESG through its reuse and recycle initiative. CGL runs the only glass recycling and manufacturing plant in the English-speaking Caribbean. By using recycled glass, CGL redirects what would otherwise be a wasted valuable resource away from landfills.

ANSA Packaging as well as Trinidad and Tobago, its citizens and the environment would benefit from the increase in locally collected glass for recycling for many reasons; cost efficiency, reduced requirement to mine and import new raw materials, less energy used for manufacturing, reduced transport emissions from imports, and less glass waste that ends up in the landfills. ANSA Packaging continues to actively engage stakeholders with the aim of increasing locally collected cullet for use in the manufacture of new glass products in various ways:

1. Beach clean-up – waste glass recycled: on two occasions, ANSA Packaging coordinated volunteers to conduct clean- up exercises with the support of the Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development (CNIRD) in Trinidad. All of the glass waste collected was taken by CGL for recycling.

• To commemorate Earth Day 2022, Carib Glassworks Limited (CGL) supported the coordination of 42 volunteers in collecting trash from Chagville beach in Chaguaramas. A total of 7,349 pieces of trash were collected, of which 249 were glass bottles sent to CGL for recycling.

• On September 17th, 2022, ANSA Packaging coordinated the participation of 120 volunteers from across ANSA McAL in the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). The group worked alongside 14 other companies to collect over 400 pounds of garbage from the Chacachacare island shoreline and left with a renewed commitment to be more environmentally conscious. All the waste glass collected was sent to ANSA Packaging for recycling.

BEACH CLEAN-UP AND WASTE GLASS RECYCLING EXERCISES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CARIBBAN NETWORK FOR INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CNIRD)

EARTH DAY 2022

42 VOLUNTEERS

7,349 PIECES OF TRASH

249 GLASS BOTTLES RECYCLED

INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEAN-UP

120 VOLUNTEERS

400 POUNDS OF GARBAGE

ALL WASTE GLASS RECYCLED