N. Thornton wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote in message ...

N. Thornton wrote:


Its possible. Glass is infinirely resusable, but you cannot take out the
admixtures used to crate it in the first place. In time it probably
means all bottles end up a muddy brown.


When I spoke to the glass people they said broken glass couldnt be
reused because the different pieces had different thermal expansion
coefficients, and anything made with mixed broken glass would
inevitably crack on cooling. Websites said the same thing.



I thought that was what 'mixing' dies. Distrubutes everything uniformnly
throughthe mediem so it all ends up wwth the same coeefficient.

Anyway, one more nail in the bottle bank coffin. Glass it seems cant be
recycled...




Strikes me that a lot of emphasis is being put on recycling but not
enough on re-use. For the most part the reuse ideas around seem pretty
naive, but there are more sensible ways to do it too. I idly came up
with several possibilities, which of course may or may not stand up to
further scrutiny.



Nearly all our waste is packaging materials.
Or marketing collateral.
Basically its tins, bottles, pots, wrappers etc etc.

The odd bit of building material from the endless DIY...
The food scraps get composted, as does all garden watse.
Most wood gets burnt, one way or another.
So does a lot of the paper.
Its the things that useable things come in that need to be disposed off.



That we cant do a lot with. There is also a lot of other stuff that
needs disposing as well. Check out the local tip. Check out shop
refitters skips, whole shopfuls of... nope, trade secret that. A lot
of it is no use to anyone, but also a lot there are pracitcal ways to
reuse.


Yup. burn it and use the energy.



Regards, NT