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Summary: To recycle glass, only recycle the containers that have held food, as window pane, ceramics and light bulbs can contaminate a batch of recycled glass. Avoid throwing away glass containers, as it takes less energy to reuse glass than it does to produce it from sand, with helpful information from an avid environmentalist in this free video on environmental health.
"Ohh, ahh the miracles of sand. This stuff is great, you know they make glass out of sand. And there's plenty of sand to go around so you think well why recycle glass if there's so much sand. Well I'll tell you why, because it takes a lot of energy to make glass from sand. Now if you recycle glass it actually uses up eighty to ninety percent less electricity and energy then it does from making that glass from sand. So when you recycle glass you are saving all kinds of energy and emissions that are caused from the production of that sand. So I'm going to tell you some tips on how you can recycle that glass. Ok firstly, make sure that you avoid contaminants or things like window pane, ceramics, even light bulbs. If those get mixed in with the glass that you put in the recycle bin well what happens is when they go to melt that glass and recycle it, well the ceramic doesn't melt, the melting temperature is much higher so they actually float around as contaminants and sometimes they have to throw the whole batch out. So the kind of glass you want to throw in your recycle bin are any kind of beverage container, anything like mayonnaise jars, or peanut jars anything which held food, is usually can go into the recycle bin. You might also want to check to see if there is any deposit value. In a lot of areas you can get deposits back on the glass bottles especially beverage containers. If you would like to learn more ways that you can live a little more gently on the earth by recycling glass and other recyclable materials check out the website of the California environmental protection agency. There's all kinds of great tips on there and I highly recommend it."
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