Glass Recycling 

Well said. I'm 35 and I really enjoy these recycling videos. Educative & fun to watch. :)

Nandi Collector Thank you. I agree. These videos are great info and fun to watch. I hope you’re doing well 👍

Then it should say for kids in the title.

we need more of this, to be honest schools should really be going into better details about recycling, because the future needs to be better suited to recycling then we are

It IS for kids! BUT, kids today are NOT idiots. There's a fine line between 'entertaining' and informing, and Dumbing Down the presentation!

me too, this is the new common knowledge for me 🙂 many thanks! of this video 🙂🙏

I was an automation designer in Southern NJ back in the 1990's and got to visit the KImble Glass plant in Vineland NJ several times before it closed. My favorite was a paste mold machine that made the coffee maker carafes.

Have you matured in these three years?

Glass recycling is a "fool's errand". Waste of energy moving it around. It is sand from the earth and nonpolluting in land fills.

Dive into the chemistry behind plastic and the concerns become more about long strips of plastic, or plastic with holes in it, along with inhalation risks, and less about bio-degradation. . Plastic, unlike what is commonly believed, will degrade and return as a usable substance for the planet. Just requires time. Sunlight and most plastic hate each other. And the sun wins in the end. But in the ocean, that leads to small plastic pellets, the more damaging form for many sea life to be exposed to. By the way, nature is powerful. Bacteria have been discovered to have developed the ability to degrade plastics. Chemists are working on helping perfect that as I type. Soon, we will have the ability to safely bio-degrade plastics which will bring the need for legislation which will put a stop to New York and New Jersy's garbage dumping policy which happens to be a HUGE contributor (not the only ones) to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. With a HUGE potential of engineering bacteria whose waste products from consuming plastic could be useful for humans I might add. As far as glass, the nature of glass itself is why recycling it is not as big an effort as it should be. In the end, discarded glass returns to the Earth as it was pulled from it. In one of it's raw basic ingredients. Sand. I agree though. We should mandate country wide recycling of everything that can be recycled efficiently. Glass being the easiest and most efficient to recycle.

Carlos Herrera I'm outraged that you aren't putting your money where your mouth is. Change takes money. Do it yourself.

I feel like most things are recycleable, if we dont have the tech there'll be consequences to not... But generally speaking we do. I think that eventually were going to clear up our landfills by sorting. Its a solution no ones mentioning!

@@Orc-icide wat????

Glass recycling is a "fool's errand". Waste of energy moving it around. It is sand from the earth and nonpolluting in land fills.

Same in Fairfax County, VA. Fairfax county no longer collects glass from curb side recycling. They still collect at recycling center in special container, but even with that, they just grind it down to use as aggregate or fill material for road construction or landfill. Not another glass product. Glass recycling is really not worthwhile unless it is clear and free of foreign material (label, caps, etc..)

exactly. no greater task than depollution and recycling. we'll get there one day.

Exactly... But we can so we just need to make that happen and crack down on recycling as much materials as possible!

Exactly! Nobody thought this whole thing through. Plastic is good because it is lighter, takes up less volume, and is more durable than glass. Same for aluminum. Aluminum can of course be smelted and reused with a little energy, and is a valuable resource, but plastic is easily contaminated and requires energy to reuse. It makes a lot more sense to burn all the organic/petroleum based waste to generate electricity at the source like they do in Sweden (Ref. sweden.se/nature/the-swedish-recycling-revolution/). The CO2 emissions are not the big problem people have been led to believe. Glass is just heavy waste nobody wants - there is no profit in recycling it. The feed-stock to make glass is of course just sand.....

so many people do not clean out their glass. Thought that was one of the reasons other countries don't want our trash/ glass anymore. More education about recycling processes would really help with this proly. Also world sand shortage is becoming a greater issue; ie, impetus to recycle glass more.

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more like huell howser

When I watch videos from other countries, I wish they would include the USA measurement of weights and measures. Metric means nothing to me since I was raised here in the States...

I recently found out that is how most glasses are recycled in the US. Glass recycling doesn't make much sense unless it is presorted from the source. Actually costs more and not really environmentally friendly.

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The crushed 3-mix is run through a dryer furnace which weakens the glue. Vibration removes most of the labels the rest of the way and vacuum suction hoods remove the label and any other paper, plastics or dust.

yup. so it the repeating of questions and answers already given.

Well come Tanzania invest Recycle glass

No bople not

steve b He is a very stable genius. Just ask him.

Well these people are in California.

@Azhaar Laghari NAHHH THESE ARE THEM CALIFORNIA LIBERALS... SO THE ANSWER WOULD BE A "SNOWFLAKE LIBTARD DEMO-RAT."

this is why they say if you think education is expensive try ignorance where do you think we would be if there was no public education period ? sounds like a nightmare if you ask me . i was shocked to learn of people who made it all the way to college but can't read past first grade level

Those who have gone to the current crop of public schools where they teach about how to get along with people, watch what you say, don't touch anyone rather than the basic necessities of science, math, history, English and real Civics courses that would let people know what sort of dictatorial traitor the current blond headed idiot is. Public schools, with rare exceptions are not interested in teaching, just getting through the day without getting shot. Students are not interested in learning, they just want to bully, kill, sell drugs to school mates and stake out gang turf. School is for socializing not education.

Where is your scientific proof of that ? I guess every old fish tank will just dissolve away eh ! NOT

Not true at all. Glass is made partly from sand and it does not dissolve. It can become etched by abrasion but it does not dissolve.

Mbakiso Hobona Idk about the cullet (I’m assuming you’re right though). I know I used to work by a Silica place where they would dry sand and probably other stuff. There will signs all over about silicosis and wearing the right ppe

alright then AGREE

No Name If you are asking how tall a building has to be to be considered a skyscraper, this is what I found The Emporis Standards Committee defines a high-rise building as "a multi-story structure between 35-100 meters tall, or a building of unknown height from 12-39 floors" and a skyscraper as "a multi-story building whose architectural height is at least 100 m or 330 ft.".

Very big🤗

That does happen sometimes. Obviously a company needs to get its own type of bottles back, then they are delabelled, cleaned, checked for integrity, and reused.

IamrealX less sanitary

KingJustice98 they get steralized... Nothing unsanitary about that.

Company's protest saying it restricts creativity and product identity.

The highest cost in almost everything is logistics - transporting the goods. They don't want to pay to transport the goods from the consumer back to the producer (to be re-used), especially when a high percentage of bottles will end up broken and useless.

I feel the same way. Sadly it's so easy and cheap to make plastic.

@@johnr.timmers2297 Plus it's hardened oil, which some think is a "better" thing to keep food and bev in. It's not, of course - even the taste tells us that.

and the plant manager was like, "how long do I have to put up with this?"

Much lighter and cheaper.

Clay is recycled at the factories before it is fired. Like bricks, pottery from clay is reused. But after it is fired is different. Not many uses for it, so it isn't cost effective. Most glass other than bottles is not recycled due to composition. Borosilicate glass is not recycled, ie. the tempered glass used in "Pyrex" bakeware. Or glass from light bulbs /mirrors/auto windows / etc. due to the chemical composition of the glass. As they said some glass also has a higher melt temperature than the bottle type glass so it can't be reused either.

@@ivanivonovich9863 windshields can be recycled.

Where I live there is no where to recycle glass :(

Its a great shame that America is so stupid ! But look at your POTUS , I rest my case

@@ifraneman07 troll alert!!!!!

@@ifraneman07 god you are stupid

the molds must be changed to change bottle type/shape. if a machine can be shut down and isolated from a multi-machine line, the line can run, but the machine is shut down for the change. molds are changed periodically, even if replaced by same type/shape of mold.

CuriousEarthMan is correct. They have several molding forms, so they merely isolate one machine at a time while the others continue forming the rest of the order, while one machine is down, they change out the mold forms. If the next run of bottles is the same overall volume, just with a different shape, they only change the molds. If the next run will be larger or smaller bottles, then they also need to adjust the size of the gobs of glass being distributed, so in that case the line might be very briefly stopped while that adjustment is made. Otherwise, they just isolate one station at a time until they have changed all the molds and the full run of that product is in full force.

How many beer drinking drunks does it take to produce 1 KG of brown glass?

There are too many impurities in recycled glass because they can't remove 100% of them. They need to use new pure glass to reduce the amount of impurities by volume (water it down)

the glass packing institute says up 95% can be cullet. I used to think it had to do with crystalline structures, but now I'm not sure.

i think it's a vacuum, so the mouth of the bottle is like the opening of a rubber balloon, and when negative pressure (vacuum/sucking) is applied to the outside of the glass, the glass is sucked to the sides of the mold. you can't achieve a bottle shape via an interior mold.

Tempered side windows and some rear windows are. If it turns to little cubes when it breaks, that's tempered glass. The stuff in front windshields (and some rear windows) is a sandwich of 2 layers of glass on the outside, with a special layer of plastic on the inside. This is so that it stays (largely) intact and in place in an accident. Front windshields also are very often a stressed-member, meaning that they provide strength that is integral to the integrity of the passenger compartment remaining as strong as possible. Because of the nature of the "sandwich" of glass and plastic, the glass industry has deemed it too difficult to separate the layers and recover the glass from it. I'm waiting for the industry to do something, or for the government to nudge them into doing something about finding a way to figure out how to separate and recover the glass and send the plastic layer where plastics go for recycling. Right now, windshields are considered garbage, so you can guess where that ends up.

Agreed. Either they were truly ignorant people or it was an attempt to be amusing, either way, waste of video time. I've never worked in glass but knew very well what a cullet is.

@@kosmos1957 Education is so wonderful, don't you just love it. Lyle does.

The cullet will cause a wound its still glass and the tyres are solid rubber so they dont puncture.

Yes, the cullet could puncture skin if not handled carefully. And the filth and dirt with it would most certainly introduce infection to the Nth degree. Therefore, you handle the stuff with care if you must handle it. The machinery in the areas of the cullet, have either solid rubber tires, or multi-ply heavy-duty highway tires. Most of the glass that sticks in the tire tread area of highway tires would be gone from the tread before the vehicle has gone about a block, and most of the rest would fly out when the vehicle hits higher speeds on the big highways. Tread rubber and the plies beneath are fairly deep or thick, and it help give the tire time to shed objects before they can puncture through and allow the air inside to seep out.