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OVERVIEW Glass is, besides Paper a large component of household and industrial waste containing usually disposed bottles, windows, and used or broken glassware. Glass waste collection points are very common now near shopping centers and in local neighborhoods, besides collection points of other recyclable waste like paper, metals, etc. Local (municipal) waste collectors usually have one central collection point for all types of waste in which large glass containers are located. Most glass containers have separate entries for clear, green and amber glass (the latter should be used for unusual glass colors like blue, orange, etc.) as different colors of glass are usually chemically incompatible. Another important thing is that heat-resistant glass like Pyrex or Borosilicate Glass should not be disposed of in the glass containier as even one single piece of Pyrex oven glass will change the viscosity and / or composition of the glass furnace at remelt. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS Creating recycled glass uses less energy to make virgin glass from sand, lime and soda. Glass that is crushed and ready to be remelted is called cullet. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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