On 11 Jun 2005 10:27:02 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

And if you just throw the glass in a glass recycling bin, it takes relatively
little energy to remake it.

Glass isn't recycled though. If you're lucky it ends up as glasphalt
(road aggregate), if you're unlucky it goes as landfill. Very little
goes back into glassmaking as cullet, and almost none as primary glass
for direct re-melting. Glass recycling _as_glass_ is pretty broken in
the UK.