Steve Firth wrote:
The Other Mike wrote:
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?

Sorry I was being bone idle. I was based at Wakefield at time this
work was bring done and I mean Ferrybridge (A1M/M62) to J49 A1M
(A168). I forgot its not the A19 until Thirsk. It just felt like one
interminable road when I did my five times a week backwards and
forwards between Stockton and Wakefield.


The slag insert rude comment here was produced by the now closed
Pilkingtons Kirk Sandall glass works.

The internal walls of some of the houses in Kirk Sandall are also built out
of the same slag.

Those walls are designed to destroy SDS drill bits:-)


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Adam