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To Save Energy :
Less energy is needed to melt cullet (ground up old glass) than convert raw material to glass.
To Reduce Waste:
Recycled glass generates 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution. A glass container takes a million years to even begin to decompose, the fact is glass can be recycled an infinite amount of times. 9% of household waste is glass.
To Preserve Raw Material :
For every ton of glass recycled it will save over a ton of raw materials from being used, including 1,300 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pound of feldspar.
One ton of recycled glass saves the
equivalent
to 10 gallons of oil in energy.
The Life of Glass ...Recycled:
Glass can in two ways
literally
live forever. If not recycled a glass container will spend a million years in a landfill before it will even begin to decompose. If the glass is recycled it can be recycled an infinite amount of times over that million years. Once glass containers are collected for recycling they are cleaned and sorted by color. They are then crushed, (the crushed glass is called cullet) the cullet is then re-melted with raw material and then formed into new glass products.
Facts about Recycled Glass Containers
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Recycling one glass container saves enough energy
to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours. |
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Producing a ton of glass from 100% raw materials creates 384
pounds of mining waste. Using 50% recycled glass cuts this waste
by about 75%. |
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Recycling
glass lowers the melting temperature and saves 32% of the energy
needed for production of new glass. |
The information on this page is a compilation of data from the following sites
To find out more about Glass Container Recycling:
http://www.gpi.org/
http://www.bottlesandcans.com
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