On 25 Aug 2013 10:08:04 GMT
Huge wrote:

On 2013-08-24, alan wrote:
On 24/08/2013 16:53, Steve Firth wrote:
Huge wrote:

It all goes for cullet, mostly to make glassfibre insulation.

Not quite true. The A1M from Wakefield to the A19 was rebuilt
using lots of "recycled" glass. It makes excellent ballast.
Significant quantities of cullet are used as construction
materials where it can replace sharp sand.


None of which requires the glass to be separated by colour.

Oh, the separation by colour is pointless. It all goes in the same
lorry and get mixed up before it is used. I ignore the colour
nonsense at the bottle bank.



Our local bottle bank yesterday had three containers:
Clear Glass;
Green Glass;
Mixed Glass (which had clearly been Brown Glass beforehand).

--
Davey.