Facts About Glass

The oldest examples of glass are Egyptian beads dating from 12,000 BC.

On average, every family in the UK uses around 330 glass bottles and jars each year.

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'.