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Glass Doesn't get Recycled Because it Costs too Much
Let's take a look at glass. Or even better, let's look through glass. What do you see? Technically speaking, glass is not a true solid, it's actually a "super-cooled fluid". But that only matters if you are a student of really old windows, when the slow flow of glass under the influence of gravity makes the lower half of an antique window thicker than the upper.
The materials you'll need for making glass are soda ash, silica and limestone. Silica and limestone are quarry products whereas soda ash is produced in large volumes by the worldwide chemicals industry. Once all these ingredients are gathered, they are melted together at extremely high temperatures, creating glass. This method for creating glass is used for everything from creating glass fibres used in windows and car windscreens, all the way to bottles and jars you keep in your kitchen.
A huge amount of energy is used in the chain of processes leading to the production of glass items. So using recycled glass to make thing such as recycled glass vases has to be a good thing, right?
Up to a point. The sad fact is that most glass used in the products and objects we buy is brand new material. The reason for this is that manufacturers tend to insist on uniformity and creating glass like that is only feasibleby creating it from scratch
The very best thing to do with bottles and jars is theoretically to clean them and reuse them for their original product. Within the UK, this only happen on a major basis with milk bottles which some people get delivered to their door. These bottles are clean and refilled around 12 times per bottle. The reason why reusing glass is so successful in this form is because alongside dropping off fresh milk the milk delivery system also involves picking up old bottles. The reason why this form of bottle re-use doesn't work with other products include the lack of cooperation from retails that don't want to handle the returns process, the cost of returning bottles back to their country of origin.
All other glass products are ground down to form cullet which can be used in the production of new glass. But it isn't. The glass that is actually recycled is used in many other products, one being new road surfaces. Almost all of the bottles and jars that we recycle have been created from new glass. Your recycling efforts won't change that. The reason is that the costs of transporting cullet, its uncertain composition, and the precise specifications needed in the glass bottle industry make it impossible.
Recycling plate glass causes even more problems. A huge amount of glass is used for replacing old glass for things like double glazing units and windscreens. Ever wondered what happens to the old units? Straight into landfill sites. The reason why this happens is because it just takes too much time and costs too much to remove the glass.
It is a real challenge to find a shop that sells products created from used glass. They should be treasured and encouraged because their producers are able to demonstrate that it can be done. So here's a great link to a retailer that stocks a number of recycled glass products, including recycled glass tableware such as plates, bowls and wine glasses, as well as colourful recycled glass bathroom accessories such as soap dispensers.
JULIAN SMITH – Malk
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