On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:53:05 +0000 (UTC), Steve Firth
wrote:

Huge wrote:
On 2013-08-23, alan wrote:

Until recently people around my way sorted glass by colour into large
road side bins. During collection each bin was picked up in turn and
emptied into the single compartment on the back of the lorry. Possibly
with no market for the old glass it went to landfill.

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.

Couple of points:

Wakefield is 10 miles west of the A1M
The A19 does not have a junction with the A1M

Maybe you mean the new three lane bits between the A1M/M62 junction and the
A1M/A168 junction?


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