A photograph of a cullet sorting machine in action. A suite of sensors enables sorting equipment to quickly purify crushed glass, or cullet, for recycling. Credit: Strategic Materials If you could ...

This photo shows furnace-hot bottles moving through a production line. Straight out of the furnace, new glass bottles move down the manufacturing line. Credit: Owens-Illinois Americans dispose of some ...

The glass industry has four major segments. The container glass segment produces glass packaging products, such as bottles and jars. The flat glass (or float glass) segment produces windows for ...

Municipal recycling programs have a love/hate relationship with glass. While it is great for increasing diversion rates, the growing popularity of commingled collections has had a nega- tive effect on ...