Used beverage bottles heaped behind a glass works in Crete for recycling into hand-worked glass objects as domestic ornaments. Glass makes up a large

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Used beverage bottles heaped behind a glass works in Crete for recycling into hand-worked glass objects as domestic ornaments. Glass makes up a large component of household and industrial waste due to its weight and density. The glass component in municipal waste is usually made up of bottles, broken glassware, light bulbs and other items. Adding to this waste is the fact that many manual methods of creating glass objects have a defect rate of around forty percent. Glass recycling uses less energy than manufacturing glass from sand, lime and soda. Every metric ton of waste glass recycled into new items saves 315 additional kilograms of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere during the creation of new glass.

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Keywords: atmosphere, beverage, bottles, broken, carbon, dioxide, glass, glassware, industrial, lime, objects, recycling, sand, soda, waste