Cullet

The example illustrating the environmental folly of recycling glass into cullet is well put, however a wealth of life cycle analyses of different material streams have been published, the majority of which suggest that recycling tends to be the preferred waste management option from an environmental perspective. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eventually, the amount of CRT 'cullet' - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eventually, the amount of CRT "cullet" - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Less than two years after its local launch, the private venture is now grinding thousands of tons of jars and bottles from a five-state area into a crushed glass product called cullet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think that clearly we are seeing eventually then also cullet, which is the broken glass and the post-consumer glass generally moving perhaps with some delay in line with what soda ash prices is doing so it would also eventually be affected. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The challenge is that the main ingredient in glass, sand, is plentiful and cheap _ often cheaper than cullet, which is glass that has been prepared for recycling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The challenge is that the main ingredient in glass, sand, is plentiful and cheap - often cheaper than cullet, which is glass that has been prepared for recycling. ❋ Mead Gruver ASSOCIATED PRESS (2009)

The company uses 40-45 % recycled cullet in the glass melt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus, glass bottles may be washed out directly and returned to use, or glass bottles may be collected and crushed into cullet before the glass cullet is melted to make new glass containers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We can presume that, at that moment in time -- with a limited number of areas of habitation -- intensive recycling of glass cullet was no longer done and that on the whole glassworking at Sagalassos had ceased. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Glass cullet means waste glass, which can be used as the basis for cheap glazes. ❋ Unknown (1993)

· Broken glass (cullet) can be recycled in glass manufacture, but also has some uses as building material. ❋ Unknown (1988)

Take as many as you please, break them into a dish and put to them some sweet butter, being melted, some salt, sugar, and a little grated nutmeg, give them a cullet in the dish, &c. ❋ Robert May (N/A)

The glass containers are collected locally, processed and crushed at the Ripple Glass plant at 1642 Crystal Ave. Then the cullet is hauled to the Owens-Corning plant in Kansas City, Kan., where it's melted and spun into fiberglass insulation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With more amber glass being collected in the form of beer and wine bottles, Ripple Glass needed another outlet for that cullet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The fiberglass plant could use cullet only if it contained less than 20 percent amber glass. ❋ Unknown (2011)