View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Brian Gaff Brian Gaff is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 10,998
Default Quick question - recycling glass from cooker hood

Would your average waste collector guy even bother to look?
Brian

--
----- -
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Blind user, so no pictures please!
"newshound" wrote in message
...
On 09/02/2018 13:18, David wrote:
I am assuming that the glass part of the cooker hood is tempered and
melts
at a higher temperature than normal soda glass and so is not suitable for
recycling.

http://wastesavers.co.uk/cant-recycle-glass-tumblers-pyrex/

As usual an Internet search seems inconclusive.

Just in the process of throwing out all the bits of the old cooker hood
before fitting the new one.

Cheers



Dave R


Not sure that it is chemically different. There is an alternative
hardening process which diffuses potassium into the surface (roughly
analogous to carburising or nitriding)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass

But IIRC you are not encouraged to recycle any sheet glass into bottle
banks.