The Grosvenor Hotel in Mayfair, London, is using a glass implosion process to cut down on waste journeys in London. The 5* hotel, popular with royalty, celebrities & business leaders, has 500 rooms, 6 restaurants & a 2000 seat banqueting hall & can produce 20 x 660 litre bins of empty bottles/day. It carried out an environmental review of all waste with a view to reducing landfill, increasing recycling & cutting down on traffic congestion. The hotel has purchased the "imploder" from Krysteline, a Dorset-based company, to reduce man hours & replace the 3-4 truckloads of glass waste per week. This clean, safe system used advanced technology, which densifies the glass up to around 5% & also makes it sharp-free & suitable as recycled aggregate. For hotels, the average 75% volume reduction is one of the greatest benefits of implosion.
