4 Cool Reasons for recycling glass.
1) Glass Recycling Saves Energy
Melting anything in a furnace uses energy and affects the environment. Making glass by melting recycled glass in the furnace uses far less energy and reduces pollution.
2) Recycling glass helps us care for the environment
To make glass, lots of raw materials are quarried and heated in a furnace. This means areas of countryside are dug up so we can collect the ingredients to make glass. When we melt recycled glass from glass banks in the furnace we do not need these other ingredients. The more glass that we recycle, the less new ingredients we will need, and this means less quarrying in the countryside.
3) Recycling Glass cuts waste
Waste disposal means getting rid of rubbish. Millions of pounds are spent each year hiding our rubbish in huge piles that can be the size of up to 10 football pitches. These are called landfill sites, and thousands have been created throughout the British countryside.
8% of our household rubbish is glass. This means if all the rubbish billy bottle you have ever thrown away at home was put into 100 piles, 8 of those piles would be glass.
If we recycled this glass instead of throwing it into the bin, we would have less waste to get rid of, which would save the countryside and cost less money.
4) Glass recycling makes people aware of how they can help
Everyone can help to look after the environment. Putting used bottles and jars in a glass bank is a small, easy step we can all take to help clean up our earth.