Fascinating Facts About Glass Recycling
Recycling one glass bottle in the making of a new glass container saves
enough energy to keep a 100 watt light bulb illuminated for four hours.
The amount of energy conserved by Consumers Glass as a result of Canada-wide
glass recycling programs in 1995 -- 333 billion BTUs -- would be sufficient
to meet the energy requirements of households in a town the size of Brooks,
Alberta; or Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, for one year.
If all the glass bottles and jars sent to Consumers Glass from recycling
programs in Canada in 1995 were laid end to end, they would circle the earth
four times around the equator. (Estimates based on average bottle height
of 19.1 cm.)
From 1988 to 1995, 1.5 million tons of recycled glass were used by Consumers
Glass. At 28 lbs. of recycled glass per cubic foot, this amount of glass
would almost completely fill two Toronto SkyDomes.
From 1988 to 1995, 5.6 billion glass containers were recycled by Consumers
Glass; this is equivalent to 26 glass containers each year for every Canadian.
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