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Amazing Facts1. The UK glass industry recycled 587,000 tonnes of glass in 2001, saving enough energy to launch 10 space shuttle missions. 2. The energy saving from recycling one bottle will:
3. The oldest examples of glass are Egyptian beads dating from 12,000 BC. 4. Seventy per cent of consumers believe that glass packaging suggests quality. 5. Glass is 100% recyclable and can be endlessly recycled with no loss in quality. 6. The UK has more than 50,000 bottle banks. 7. Every council in the country has glass bottle banks. 8. On average, every family in the UK uses around 330 glass bottles and jars each year. However, we only recycle 30% of these containers. 9. One bottle bank can hold up to 3,000 bottles before it needs to be emptied. 10. Many glass making terms have entered the language: 'Coddswallop': Hiram Codd invented the marble stoppered 'pop' bottle in the 1870s, and millions of the bottles were made, particularly in South Yorkshire. 'Wallop' was the name given to the cheap beer of the day, and beer drinkers dubbed the contents of the codd bottle 'a load of coddswallop'. 'Shut yer gob': a molten lump of glass is called a 'gob' to which the glass blower attached a tube to blow the glass into shape. The blower had to blow hard which made his cheeks very large. Today someone with a big mouth is told they have a big gob. |