Advantages of Glass Bottle Recycling

Glass is a wonderful substance. It can be recycled over and over again. The benefit of glass bottle recycling is that the glass retains its quality. Broken glass, commonly known as household glass, is the most common type of glass. Imagine how many bottles of soda, juice, and glass jars you use every day. The environment suffers greatly if we simply throw them away. Therefore, it is important to keep the recycling culture alive.

Broken glass is easy to recycle. It has infinite life. It can be continuously melted and recycled to create quality new glass products. Glass makers mix cullet (a granular material made by crushing bottles and jars) with limestone, sand, and other raw materials, and melt the glass to make new glass bottles.

The U.S. processes 10 million tons of glass every year, but only 33 percent of waste glass is recycled, dwarfing the 90 percent recycling rate in Switzerland, Germany, and other European countries, according to the Glass Packing Institute.

By simply recycling glass bottles, we can:

Reduce the use of non-renewable fossil fuels

Reduce process CO2 emissions from carbonate feedstocks such as limestone.

After the glass bottles are collected, they will be reprocessed, including the following steps:

Step 1: Crush the glass bottle to remove contaminants. If desired, mechanized color sorting can also be performed at this stage.

Step 2: The cullet is then mixed with raw materials to color and/or enhance properties as desired.

Step 3: The glass mixture is then melted in a furnace.

Step 4: The molten glass is then molded or blown into new glass bottles or jars.

The melting temperature of recycled glass is lower than its raw material composition. Making glass bottles from scratch requires 40% more energy than recycling them. The greatest profit is achieved if recycling is done on a large scale. Research shows that recycling a glass bottle can generate enough energy to light an ordinary light bulb for 4 hours.

The levels of pollutants released into the air around the world every day are staggering. Recycled glass reduces air and water pollution emissions by approximately 20% and 40%, respectively. Reducing industrial pollution is not only good for the environment, but also for the entire ecosystem.

Several countries have already made economic gains from recycling glass bottles. In the United States, for example, some states have recycling programs that offer cash incentives to those who recycle glass bottles.

Recycling glass saves the need to obtain more raw materials to make new glass. Industrialized nations with strong economies realize that their economies grow more when money doesn't have to be dedicated to planting trees or buying fossil fuels. By recycling glass bottles, they save a lot of natural resources.

Through glass recycling, the aesthetic value of the environment is greatly improved. Due to the inorganic nature of glass, it will never rot. Recycling glass is very simple and you can start the process by putting the glass you have in the recycling bin.

Glass bottles sent to landfills can take up to a million years to decompose. On the other hand, a glass bottle in your kitchen can leave your recycling bin in just 30 days and show up on store shelves as a new glass product.

Since glass bottles are 100% recyclable, they can be recycled endlessly without loss of quality or purity.

The more recycled glass is used, the less energy is used in the furnace, making glass recycling a profitable process in the long run. It reduces manufacturing costs and is also good for the environment.

DAS Packaging is committed to contributing to the recycling of glass, our beverage bottles are fully compliant with recycling standards and have a very long lifespan. If necessary, please contact us.

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