Recycling Glass Bottles

Recycling Glass Bottles

I wonder what happens to empty glass bottles when it is placed in the recycling bin. Does it have a process of which it is reused? What is the recycled glass bottles made into once it has been through the process?

Silica sand is what new glass is mainly made of.  The sand is put in a furnace and is melted because it’s on a very high temperature. New glass bottles cost more than recycled glass bottles. Recycled glass bottles cost less because it uses less natural resources.

What is the start if the recycling process? It all starts when humans bring their empty glass bottles the the bottle bank. The bottle bank then brings the bottles by lorry or truck to the recycling plant. In the ‘plant’, the lids or tops of the bottles are taken off and the glass is brought to a machine that crushes the glass into very small pieces.

After it has been crushed, it is again taken by lorry to a bottle factory. In the factory, the crushed glass is mixed with a small amount of silica sand.The mixture of silica sand and crushed glass is then melted in a furnace but in a lower temperature than the newer glass bottles.

After waiting for some time the mixture is turned into hot liquid and is taken out of the furnace. Later on, the hot liquid is transferred into a machinery that creates bottles out of the liquid. Did you know that recycled glass can be recycled over and over again because it doesn’t lose it’s quality quickly.

Recycling is a very clever thing that most humans do especially because it saves money. Think about it, recycling, reusing, does it save more money for you to spend?