cullet

cul·let

(kŭl′ĭt)

Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material.

[Probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, collar, diminutive of col, neck, from Old French, from Latin collum; see k^wel- in Indo-European roots.]

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cullet

(ˈkʌlɪt)

(Ceramics) waste glass for melting down to be reused

[C17: perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc)]

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cul•let

(ˈkʌl ɪt)

n.

broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.

[1810–20; variant of collet < Italian colletto literally, little neck. See col, -et]

Translations

calcin

cullet

n → Bruchglas nt

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The recyclable materials included pieces of assorted scrap plastic, cellophane, wrappers, chunks of hard plastic, textiles, fibers, wood chips, glass cullet, stones, soil, paper, and other shredded waste materials.

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Reports said the shipment contained 'pieces of assorted scrap plastic, cellophane, wrappers, chunks of hard plastic, textiles, fibers, wood chips, glass cullet, stones, soil, paper and other shredded waste materials' that could not be easily recycled.

Locsin orders return of trash to Australia

The benefits of glass recycling are numerous where every tonne of cullet replaces 1.2 tonnes of raw materials and melting recycled glass uses 10 per cent less energy.

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Suppliers are gradually increasing the usage of cullet to reduce the production and landfill cost.

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The container vans from Australia reportedly contain "pieces of assorted scrap plastic, cellophane, wrappers, chunks of hard plastic, textiles, fibers, wood chips, glass cullet, stones, soil, paper and other shredded waste materials."

PH to ship out garbage from Australia, Korea, Hong Kong next - Locsin

Metallic mercury and demercurated (neutralized) glass cullet of the 5th class of danger are formed at the end.

Equipment for neutralization of mercury wastes and production of liquid nitrogen delivered to Kyrgyzstan

With this project, the annual savings in terms of costs incurred towards raw materials, natural gas and enhancement of furnace life by using ready-to-use processed glass cullet from NGRC will benefit Omani glass manufacturers quite a bit and is estimated to reduce their batch costs by some 30 per cent and above under optimum production conditions.

Middle East's First glass recycling unit to come up in Oman's Sohar

"The glass will be sent to Sheffield Glass for reprocessing into remelt quality cullet which is supplied to UK remelters, supporting the circular economy message which is so important to Viridor and its partners.

Thousands of tonnes of glass from Cheshire West to be sent to Sheffield; Recycling waste management solution revealed as part of a new contract arrangement

"We have many important areas of cooperation such as batch plants and cullet system crushers, control systems, factory cullet, waste glass recycling, and batch chargers," said the chairperson, adding that Zippe is a family company and the current CEO of the company is from the fourth generation of his family to run the company.

Major potential for Egypt to become global glass hub: experts

David Gorton Rumney Idiotic obsessed the UK willing to into policy Gorton HOW idiotic of Cardiff council to persist with so-called recycling of glass, whereby they collect glass bottles in the green bags, smash them all into cullet which drops out through griddles at the end of the Lamby Way sorter and then costs the public PS60 a tonne to dispose of as contaminated aggregate.