Put your blue box/bag at the curb.
The recycling truck picks the material up
and takes it to the Material Recycling
Facility (MRF).
Glass is sorted according to colour
Green,flint and amber. The glass
is shipped to a processing facility
to be cleaned and prepared for
the furnace.
Put glass through
magnets to remove
metal contaminants.
Filter the glass to remove small particles and pass it through a density separator
to remove lighter plastics
and aluminum.
Put the glass bits through more magnets
and some air to get rid of any left-over
plastic,metal or bits.
The pure glass bits are called cullet. The processor ships this raw material to one of the glass furnaces. The cullet can be mixed with pure ingredients to make new container glass (See glass ingredients).
The cullet can be used to produce new container glass, fibreglass and glassbeads (which is the reflective component in road paint), or it can be used in road construction and for other aggregate uses.
