A £25 million glass recycling facility owned by Viridor has been opened by the Scottish Environment Secretary. Richard Lochhead opened the facility at Newhouse in North Lanarkshire that will recycle glass from 17 Scottish local authorities for use by the Scottish whisky industry in its bottles. The centre includes 15 optical sorters, x-ray sorters, over 1.5 kilometres of conveyor belts and 2.5 kilometres of electrical cabling. Viridor chief executive Ian McAulay said: "Building on existing network and over £357 million of investment in Scotland's green economy over the last 24 months, Newhouse brings the UK's most advanced glass recycling centre home to the central belt and places Scotland at the leading edge of global glass recycling.