Recycling Glass

Recycling glass is another way that we can go green in our homes. Over month, we may fill up a box of waste bottles that we used– jars, wine bottles, glass soda bottles and other containers that are made of glass. We can help reduce the amount of waste glass that is coming to our landfills by separating them and putting them in glass banks.

We just have to separate the glass by color. The most common colors of glass are colorless, green and brown. The colorless glass are the our jars and soda bottles. Green glass bottles are the wine bottles. Brown glass bottles are the beer bottles.

They can be broken down and turn into recycled glass. Glass can be recycled over and over again and less energy is needed to recycle glass than to make glass. It will also conserve our natural resources.

Recycling glass can also mean using our waste glass for other purposes. We can re-use jars to store sugar or coffee. We can also re-use wine bottles as decors for our living rooms.

Big companies who manufacture beer and wines are also being urged to re-fill used bottles. This is what many companies in the Philippines do. People collect waste bottles in the community, they clean the bottles and they sell it to the companies who own the bottles so that the company can use the bottles again.

But majority of companies who use bottles for containers of their products still manufacture or buy new glass. We can reduce our national usage of our fuel if we encourage these companies to follow the other companies who refill their bottles.

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