Yeah, I meant to put that in my comment and lost track. My brain was so fried, I’m surprised any of it was intelligible.
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Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoIn the case of glass bottles don’t forget that they can be reused instead of recycled. Which reduces the amount of energy you use for them.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
lemming741@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah it’s like 30% less heat input to melt cullet and you save raw materials. The problem is the quality impact. It’s a similar problem with paper recycling. Part of that is the fault of consumer preference, and I think that’s changing.
www.aigmf.com/…/Cullet Sorting Technologies.pdf
Some info on the challenges
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
That is an awesome bit of info. I had never even thought about stuff like mirrors interfering in recycling glass