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lemming741@lemmy.world 2 days agoYeah 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
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That is an awesome bit of info. I had never even thought about stuff like mirrors interfering in recycling glass