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4 | Glossary
Glass: Glass is very special. It can be recycled again
and again into new glass bottles and jars
and each new bottle or jar will look as good
as the last.
Glass is made mostly from sand,
which is dug or mined out of the ground.
Already
glass bottles and jars made in the UK contain
on average 35 % recycled glass. For green
bottles, the proportion of recycled glass
may be as high as 90 %. Glass from other
countries, where recycling rates are higher,
may contain an even higher proportion of
recycled material.
Mostly people take used
glass bottles and jars to bring
sites for
recycling, where there are bottle banks to
put them in. There are normally three different
bottle banks, one for green glass, one
for amber or brown glass and one for clear
glass.
It is important that glass bottles
and jars are put into the right colour
bottle banks so when they are turned back
into new bottles and jars they turn out
the same colour.
It takes 30 % less energy to make a bottle from recycled glass than
to make it from raw
materials.
Every year
we can save hundreds of thousand of tonnes
of raw materials by recycling more glass.
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