Did You Know

It is hard to believe but glass is 100% recyclable and more than that can be recycled forever with no loss in quality or purity, which is a claim that few few food and beverage packaging options can make. As glass can be downcycled it save it from the landfill, which means that container glass a very valuable and a great environmental friend for a packaging material. The term downcycle means something that can be recycled into something of a lesser quality. This is great news for a glass manufacturer, as cullet (recycled glass) is of an extreme benefit. Cullet is crushed (recycled) glass and is a really critical secondary raw material. London Glaziers can advise on recycling. About 2.5 – 3% of energy is saved for every 10% of cullet used instead of raw materials, as no energy is required to melt cullet. London Glazing are green glass merchants. In excess of 67% of all glass in the form of bottles and jars in Europe are taken for recycling. This adds up to 25 billion jars and bottles or 11 million tons being collected across europe. Glass is made from natural, sustainable and very abundant materials like sand, soda ash and limestone.  Glass is not made from scarce resources such as oil, and therefore it helps to prevent the exploitation of fossil fuels. The glass production actual needs energy to melt the raw materials and also the recycled glass but this energy is not obtained from fossil fuels such as oil.  Wherever possible, the part of fossil CO2 emissions arising from burning fossil fuels to melt glass could be greatly reduced by switching to renewable or low carbon energy sources. Glass can be made with practically any energy source. The use of fossil fuel is actually very recent in the many centuries of glass manufacture.