Glass Recycling is one of the most useful recycling processes. Our landfill will be helped to extend its life efficiently by glass recycling as glass is a large component of household industrial waste. As you can see, glass is used to make the package of many products and to create uncountable items such as light bulbs, windows, mirrors, dishes, lenses and so on. Nowadays there are many glass products which are made every year. Unfortunately, there is only 30% of glass containers in the supermarket which can be recycled but it is not even in a half of these containers that recycled by consumer. As the result, it is quite important to recycle those glasses. There is kind of worth to recycle glass waste because glass recycling uses less energy than the process of making glass from sand, lime and soda. Below are some tips of glass recycling for you:
· Remove any lids or metals on glass products as the start of proper recycle process.
· Cleaning glass products with water.
· Do not have to remove the labels on glass products because will be removed during the crushing process or burned off during the melting process.
· As once a glass container has been colored, it cannot be made into a different color so that colors of glass must be separated.
· Avoid of breaking the glass because glass may be unacceptable for recycling.