Fascinating facts about glass
What's the connection between a glass bottle and a load of nonsense? In the 1870s, Hiram Codd invented a glass bottle with a marble stopper. Millions of these were made, particularly in South Yorkshire, and used for the cheap beer known as wallop. The beer became known as 'coddswallop' and the word was found so useful, it passed into everyday language.
Recycling glass
Waste glass is a valuable material, and glass can be recycled 100%, nothing wasted.
It's particularly easy to recycle the old bottles and jars everyone throws away in large quantities. And there are real advantages for the community. By recycling more of our waste glass we will:
- save energy
- reduce landfill
Why recycle glass?
There are lots of good reasons, from the purely personal to the global, but these are two of the main ones:
Recycling glass saves energy in the furnaces. It takes much less heat to melt scrap glass than to fire the raw ingredients for new glass. Just one recycled bottle saves enough energy to run a personal computer for 25 minutes or a 100 watt light bulb for nearly an hour. And energy saved means less global-warming gases and pollutants from the power stations.
Recycling glass saves landfill space because glass makes up about 8% of all household rubbish. At the moment a lot of that still ends up in landfill sites, where it makes a big contribution to the ever-growing heaps.
The Council is committed to increasing the amount of household waste we recycle. Please use your Blue Box and Blue Bags to the full.
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