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Glass: A Skyscraper of Opportunity Together With

Glass: A Skyscraper of Opportunity Together With. How It’s Made. Glass is made from four major ingredients: silica sand, limestone, and soda ash (all different types of sand) and recycled glass. What is the word for recycled glass? Cullet Sea glass Millet Compost. How It’s Made.

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Glass: A Skyscraper of Opportunity Together With

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  1. Glass: A Skyscraper of OpportunityTogether With

  2. How It’s Made Glass is made from four major ingredients: silica sand, limestone, and soda ash (all different types of sand) and recycled glass. What is the word for recycled glass? • Cullet • Sea glass • Millet • Compost

  3. How It’s Made To make glass, the ingredients are mixed together and then melted down until they are the consistency of honey. At what temperature (Fahrenheit) does this take place? • 32 Degrees • 2730 Degrees • 3500 Degrees • > 10,000 Degrees

  4. How It’s Made For a video depicting how glass is made, click the link below Glass-How its Made

  5. How Green is Glass? As the video mentions, glass can be endlessly recycled. However, recycling rates remain low in the United States and many recycling companies have a difficult time dealing with glass because it is so heavy and the raw materials to make it are so cheap.

  6. How Green is Glass? While about 80% of recycled glass gets turned into new beverage containers, there is one color of glass that is more often “down-cycled” and used in construction and other industrial projects. Which color is it? • Green • Brown • Clear

  7. How Green is Glass? Glass manufacturers plan to use _____ recycled glass in all new containers by 2013: • 11% • 35% • 50% • 92% 1

  8. How Green is Glass? Glass can even be recycled after it is broken. This statement is: True False

  9. How Green is Glass? Unfortunately, the United States has a relatively low glass recycling rate. Which five countries have glass recycling rates DOUBLE that of the United States? • Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana • Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia • China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan • Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland 1

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  11. Sources for Factual Information • 1-Taylor, Kristen. "LiDestri Receives Environmental Recognition for Recycling Glass Containers." Glass Packaging Institute. GPI, 16 Sept. 2010. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.gpi.org/media/september-16-2010---lidestri-r.html>. • 2-"Glass Containers." Container Recycling Institute. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.container-recycling.org/facts/glass/data/glassrates.htm>.

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