Recycled glass

 

 

 

Your glass milk bottle may be made from old glass! Much of the glass we use is made from glass that was used before. Old glass can be melted down and made into new glass. Glass is one of the easiest materials to re-use. This is called recycling.

 

 

 

 

 

Recycle glass to help care for our planet.

We need to recycle glass to save energy. It uses up lots of energy to dig sand, limestone and soda from the ground and take them to factories around the world to make glass. But broken glass, called cullet, melts to form new glass. It uses up less energy and fewer resources than making new glass.

 

 

 

 

Different colours of glass are recycled separately.

If you go with your parents or carers to the recycling bins, make sure you do not mix different coloured glasses in the same bin. Different ingredients are used to make different coloured glass so they must be kept separate.

 

 

 

A glass bottle is broken, melted and reshaped into a brand new bottle.

Bottles and jars are collected from bottle banks and taken to a glass recycling plant. They are crushed into cullet. Paper and other packaging is taken off the cullet. The cullet is mixed with soda, sand and limestone, heated in a furnace and shaped into a new glass object.