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Close of discarded clear glass bottlesNgwenya Glass, Swaziland - 25 October, 20102. Close of bird pattern glasses3. Mid tilt down of glass blower at work4. Exterior mid of factory sign showing...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMbabane, Swaziland - 26 October, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close of discarded clear glass bottles\u003cbr/\u003eNgwenya Glass, Swaziland - 25 October, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of bird pattern glasses\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid tilt down of glass blower at work\u003cbr/\u003e4. Exterior mid of factory sign showing \"NGWENYA GLASS\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of Gary Hayter, general manager of Ngwenya Glass, examining glassware\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Hayter, general manager of Ngwenya Glass\u003cbr/\u003e\"Obviously the initial core of the business is recycling glass, which is taking tons of glass per day or week out of the environment, out of landfills and turning that back into something which is useful and no longer wasted.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of workers unloading recycled clear glass at factory\u003cbr/\u003eMbabane, Swaziland - 26 October, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide exterior pan right to left of rubbish dump\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of sign showing Mbabane Landfill Site\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of Thobile Makana sorting recycled glass pans right to cleaned glass bottles\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (siSwati) Thobile Makana, glass recycler\u003cbr/\u003e\"We collect old bottles from the rubbish dump, wash them, break them, put them into bags and Ngwenya comes to collect them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12.  Mid of Thobile Makana cleaning bottles\u003cbr/\u003eNgwenya Glass, Swaziland - 25 October, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of factory workers weighing recycled glass on scales\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of factory worker crushing and cleaning recycled glass\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of factory workers shovelling glass into furnace\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of glass in furnace\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of pouring used engine oil which heats the furnace\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of glasses cooling in factory\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of glassblower pans to molten glass being shaped\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of glassblower shaping molten glass\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of worker shaping molten glass into elephant sculpture ornament\u003cbr/\u003e22. Set up shot of James Magagula removing glass from furnace\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (siSwati) James Magagula, glassblower\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you made art, or worked with clay as a youngster, then it's easier to learn to do this.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various shots of glass elephant ornament being crafted\u003cbr/\u003e25. Tracking shot of finished glassware in Ngwenya warehouse\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of worker packing glassware in recycled newspaper\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close of glassware being wrapped in newspaper\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of shoppers in the Ngwenya factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid of yellow stemmed glasses in factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid of glass whale ornaments in factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid of shoppers examining glassware in factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid of safari animal ornaments in factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid of shoppers examining hippo ornaments in factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e34. Pan right to left of hippo ornaments in factory shop\u003cbr/\u003e35. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Hayter, general manager of Ngwenya Glass\u003cbr/\u003e\"Just the rainwater capture for instance - that's 50,000 litres of free water.\"\u003cbr/\u003e36. Mid tilt down of waterspout to collection tank\u003cbr/\u003e37. Mid of coloured glass fish ornaments\u003cbr/\u003eDirty and discarded bottles are being turned into beautiful works of art - thanks to a green scheme being run by a Swaziland glass maker.\u003cbr/\u003eRescued from rubbish heaps the bottles are cleaned, crushed and transformed by local glassblowers in a process designed to provide employment and cause minimal harm to the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's difficult to believe, but these filthy old empty bottles are about to be transformed into glittering glassware, fit to adorn the most stylish of tables.\u003cbr/\u003eAided by the skills of local glassblowers Ngwenya Glass in Swaziland is producing dazzling designs in an enterprising eco-friendly scheme.\u003cbr/\u003eGeneral manager Gary Hayter explains how his business puts recycling at its core.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Obviously the initial core of the business is recycling glass, which is taking tons of glass per day or week out of the environment, out of landfills, and turning that back into something which is useful and no longer wasted,\" he explains.\u003cbr/\u003eEvery day between 700 and 1,000 kilograms (approximately 1500 - 2200 pounds) of glass is recycled into artworks and glassware.\u003cbr/\u003eThe used glass is sourced from restaurants, hotels and landfills, such as the capital city Mbabane's main rubbish dump.\u003cbr/\u003eLadies from local communities, like Thobile Makana, are paid to collect and clean the glass.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We collect old bottles from the rubbish dump,\" she says. \"Wash them, break them, put them into bags and Ngwenya comes to collect them.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAny clear unlaminated glass, except window or motor glass, is suitable for transformation by the Ngwenya glassblowers.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen the glass arrives at Ngwenya, it is weighed so the glass collectors can be paid accordingly.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is then crushed and cleaned using rainwater collected by the factory.\u003cbr/\u003eThe crushed glass is fed into the furnace and melted at between 1,200 and 1,250 degrees Celsius.\u003cbr/\u003eIn keeping with the environmental ethos, the furnace runs on a combination of paraffin and used engine oil, sourced from nearby Mbabane's garages.\u003cbr/\u003eGlass recycling is highly efficient as you get almost one pound of glass out for every pound you put in.\u003cbr/\u003eWaste is marginal and can be used to make breeze blocks, with crushed glass used instead of sand in the cement mixture.\u003cbr/\u003eThe basic concept of glassblowing is inflation, like a balloon - where the expansion of molten glass takes place by blowing air into it.\u003cbr/\u003eThe techniques were introduced when Ngwenya Glass was set up by a Swedish aid project in 1979. \u003cbr/\u003eGlassblower James Magagula started back in 1987.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says: 'If you made art, or worked with clay as a youngster, then it's easier to learn to do this.'\u003cbr/\u003eIt takes between six months and two years to learn glassblowing 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