The glass container making industry could replace an extra one million tonnes of raw material with cullet thanks to new equipment, a leading UK manufacturer has predicted, writes Kate Freeman.

Rotherham glass manufacturer Beatson Clark has completed an £840,000 upgrade at its Greasborough Road facility to install optical glass sorting technology aimed at boosting material quality. (L-R) ...

The glass industry is highly challenged by the increase of impurities in the recycled glass stream due to leaded, heat resistant and ceramic glass. Heat-resistant glass, due to its high melt rate, can ...

A photograph of a cullet sorting machine in action. A suite of sensors enables sorting equipment to quickly purify crushed glass, or cullet, for recycling. Credit: Strategic Materials If you could ...

Three years after the inauguration of the Lachine sorting centre in the west end of Montreal, the machinery to improve glass recycling no longer works. The equipment has been down for several months ...

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante inaugurated a state-of-the-art, $50-million recycling centre in Lachine Tuesday — a recycling centre that, for the time being at least, cannot sort and clean glass. A ...

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante inaugurated a state-of-the-art, $50-million recycling centre in Lachine Tuesday — a recycling centre that, for the time being at least, cannot sort and clean glass. A ...