This photo shows furnace-hot bottles moving through a production line. Straight out of the furnace, new glass bottles move down the manufacturing line. Credit: Owens-Illinois Americans dispose of some ...

A photograph of a cullet sorting machine in action. A suite of sensors enables sorting equipment to quickly purify crushed glass, or cullet, for recycling. Credit: Strategic Materials If you could ...

Other than in packaging applications, barriers remain in place to glass recycling, according to the global consulting firm. The authors say they have identified two main reasons for a low glass ...

The glass recycling market is expected to gain more traction in the forthcoming years and Europe is expected to lead the race in glass recycling. Globally, cullet accounts for more than 60 percent of ...

When people think about what happens to their glass containers once they hit the recycling bin, many assume they go back into new glass containers. While manufacturing new food and beverage containers ...

MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Verallia (Paris:VRLA), European leader and the world’s third largest producer of glass packaging for beverages and food products, continues to work on its ...

The UKs glass recycling industry is at a crossroads in terms of future direction as more local authorities opt to collect packaging glass mixed and process it through materials recycling facilities or ...

Most people toss a glass bottle into the recycling bin without a second thought. It's a small, almost automatic gesture. Yet the energy that single act conserves is enough to keep a 100-watt lightbulb ...