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4 books on Glass Recycling [PDF]
November 30, 2024 | 26 |
These books are covering the process of glass recycling, innovations in glass reuse, environmental impacts of glass waste, energy savings through recycling, challenges in sorting glass materials and the role of glass recycling in sustainable packaging.
1. Projects with Recycling and Reusing
2014 by Louise Spilsbury
In Projects with Recycling and Reusing, Louise Spilsbury takes readers on a delightfully offbeat romp through the universe of crafting, where your trash becomes treasure and your carbon footprint shrinks faster than a soggy paper straw. With instructions clearer than the odds of surviving a Vogon poetry reading, you'll transform humble milk cartons into bird diners, bottles into percussion instruments and scraps of cloth into pocketable marvels—all while the book gently prods you to ponder the quirks of conservation and the absurdity of waste. Packed with dazzling photos and vibrant nuggets of eco-wisdom, this guide is less a book and more a hitchhiker’s manual for those navigating the galaxy of creativity and care for our one slightly-used planet.
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2. Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
2013 by Samantha Macbride
In a world where people cheerfully rinse yogurt pots while ignoring the environmental carnage that made them in the first place, Recycling Reconsidered pulls back the curtain on the glitzy, feel-good illusion of the recycling movement. Samantha MacBride boldly asks why a practice that’s celebrated more fervently than national elections has, after decades, left us burying and burning mountains of trash. Spoiler: it’s not because we’re short on bins. With a wit as sharp as a broken bottle in a blue bin, she exposes how manufacturers of throwaway trinkets have spent half a century dodging real accountability while convincing everyone else to play waste warden. Recycling, she argues, has become a cosmic distraction—a shiny, squeaky-clean façade that lets the industrial titans of disposability keep calm and carry on. Through a series of eyebrow-raising case studies, MacBride doesn’t just wag a finger at our bin-based delusions but invites us to imagine a future where sustainability doesn’t hinge on sorting our sins into colored tubs but on rethinking the entire system from the ground up.
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3. Glass Waste
2004 by Kingston University (London, England)
Glass Waste is less a book and more a cosmic exploration into the universe of glass-related conundrums, brought to you by the Concrete and Masonry Research Group at Kingston University—because who better to talk about glass than people obsessed with smashing it into tiny, practical bits? Based on a two-day intergalactic summit in September 2004, this tome dives into thrilling topics like regulatory tangles, government policy labyrinths and the positively riveting art of waste management. Along the way, it flirts with the mysteries of recycling, sustainability and supply chains, all while keeping one eye firmly on the bottom line (because even the greenest future has bills to pay). Think of it as a user’s manual for glass in a universe where nothing is ever truly waste—just a future panel discussion waiting to happen.
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4. Recycling and Reuse of Glass Cullet
2001 by Ravindra K. Dhir, Mukesh C. Limbachiya, Thomas D. Dyer
In the grand and occasionally bewildering odyssey of modern sustainability, where humanity attempts to undo its mess with all the grace of a hyper-intelligent but chronically clumsy galactic species, Recycling and Reuse of Glass Cullet arrives as a beacon of slightly cracked clarity. This tome dives headfirst into the sparkling, crunchy world of glass cullet—a material so ubiquitous and underestimated that it’s practically the Marvin the Paranoid Android of construction resources. Convening the most distinguished minds from around the cosmos (or at least the planet) at a symposium in Dundee, this book boldly explores how cullet, once cast aside like yesterday's Vogon poetry recital, can be resurrected into something far more useful. Concrete sectors, it turns out, are the unexpected heroes of this tale, transforming glassy leftovers into structures that might just hold up the universe—or at least a nice little office block. Sustainable practices have never looked so intriguingly improbable, or so gleefully useful.
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1. Projects with Recycling and Reusing
2014 by Louise Spilsbury
In Projects with Recycling and Reusing, Louise Spilsbury takes readers on a delightfully offbeat romp through the universe of crafting, where your trash becomes treasure and your carbon footprint shrinks faster than a soggy paper straw. With instructions clearer than the odds of surviving a Vogon poetry reading, you'll transform humble milk cartons into bird diners, bottles into percussion instruments and scraps of cloth into pocketable marvels—all while the book gently prods you to ponder the quirks of conservation and the absurdity of waste. Packed with dazzling photos and vibrant nuggets of eco-wisdom, this guide is less a book and more a hitchhiker’s manual for those navigating the galaxy of creativity and care for our one slightly-used planet.
Download PDF
2. Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
2013 by Samantha Macbride
In a world where people cheerfully rinse yogurt pots while ignoring the environmental carnage that made them in the first place, Recycling Reconsidered pulls back the curtain on the glitzy, feel-good illusion of the recycling movement. Samantha MacBride boldly asks why a practice that’s celebrated more fervently than national elections has, after decades, left us burying and burning mountains of trash. Spoiler: it’s not because we’re short on bins. With a wit as sharp as a broken bottle in a blue bin, she exposes how manufacturers of throwaway trinkets have spent half a century dodging real accountability while convincing everyone else to play waste warden. Recycling, she argues, has become a cosmic distraction—a shiny, squeaky-clean façade that lets the industrial titans of disposability keep calm and carry on. Through a series of eyebrow-raising case studies, MacBride doesn’t just wag a finger at our bin-based delusions but invites us to imagine a future where sustainability doesn’t hinge on sorting our sins into colored tubs but on rethinking the entire system from the ground up.
Download PDF
3. Glass Waste
2004 by Kingston University (London, England)
Glass Waste is less a book and more a cosmic exploration into the universe of glass-related conundrums, brought to you by the Concrete and Masonry Research Group at Kingston University—because who better to talk about glass than people obsessed with smashing it into tiny, practical bits? Based on a two-day intergalactic summit in September 2004, this tome dives into thrilling topics like regulatory tangles, government policy labyrinths and the positively riveting art of waste management. Along the way, it flirts with the mysteries of recycling, sustainability and supply chains, all while keeping one eye firmly on the bottom line (because even the greenest future has bills to pay). Think of it as a user’s manual for glass in a universe where nothing is ever truly waste—just a future panel discussion waiting to happen.
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4. Recycling and Reuse of Glass Cullet
2001 by Ravindra K. Dhir, Mukesh C. Limbachiya, Thomas D. Dyer
In the grand and occasionally bewildering odyssey of modern sustainability, where humanity attempts to undo its mess with all the grace of a hyper-intelligent but chronically clumsy galactic species, Recycling and Reuse of Glass Cullet arrives as a beacon of slightly cracked clarity. This tome dives headfirst into the sparkling, crunchy world of glass cullet—a material so ubiquitous and underestimated that it’s practically the Marvin the Paranoid Android of construction resources. Convening the most distinguished minds from around the cosmos (or at least the planet) at a symposium in Dundee, this book boldly explores how cullet, once cast aside like yesterday's Vogon poetry recital, can be resurrected into something far more useful. Concrete sectors, it turns out, are the unexpected heroes of this tale, transforming glassy leftovers into structures that might just hold up the universe—or at least a nice little office block. Sustainable practices have never looked so intriguingly improbable, or so gleefully useful.
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