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  2. Glass recycling - Wikipedia

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    Glass recycling is the processing of waste glass into usable products. [1] ... inside the machine collects the broken glass until it can be emptied by an employee ...

  3. Bottle recycling - Wikipedia

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    Recycled glass is a necessity, as without it, manufacturers would not be able to keep up with the demand for new glass containers. [2] Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. [5] In fact for every 10% of cullet added to the production of a new bottle, energy usage goes down by 3-4%. [2]

  4. Don't Throw Away Old Christmas Lights — Here are Easy Ways to ...

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    Most Christmas lights contain plastic, glass and copper. At a facility, recycled Christmas lights will be crushed up — making it possible for the individual materials to be reused.

  5. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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    Bottles in different colours Mixed colour glass cullet Public glass waste collection point for different colours of containers. Glass recycling is the processing of waste glass into usable products. [6] Glass that is crushed or imploded and ready to be remelted is called cullet. [7] There are two types of cullet: internal and external.

  6. Upcycling - Wikipedia

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    Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.

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  8. Costco Dilemma: What the Heck Do You Do With Those Glass ...

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    Here's how Costco superfans reuse their dessert cups. Related: Best Store-Bought Desserts From Costco. ... "We use glass instead of plastic to teach the kids to be careful and cautious."

  9. Fluorescent lamp recycling - Wikipedia

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    A broken fluorescent tube will release its mercury content. Safe cleanup of broken fluorescent bulbs differs from cleanup of conventional broken glass or incandescent bulbs, avoiding the use of vacuum cleaners, in favour of sticky tape to recover small particles, and ensuring that fans and air conditioning are turned off.