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Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoIn the case of glass bottles don’t forget that they can be reused instead of recycled. Which reduces the amount of energy you use for them.
Yeah it’s like 30% less heat input to melt cullet and you save raw materials. The problem is the quality impact. It’s a similar problem with paper recycling. Part of that is the fault of consumer preference, and I think that’s changing.
www.aigmf.com/…/Cullet Sorting Technologies.pdf
Some info on the challenges
That is an awesome bit of info. I had never even thought about stuff like mirrors interfering in recycling glass
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, I meant to put that in my comment and lost track. My brain was so fried, I’m surprised any of it was intelligible.