#6 ODD Fact For Today: Glass Bottles and Jars: December 6, 2017

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I’m still caught up in talking about recycling, because I feel strongly about the subject. People have been making GLASS for at least 3500 years. From what is glass made? Most glass is made from three basic ingredients. White sand, soda and lime. These ingredients are heated to about 2,500 degrees F until they are transparent and completely dissolved. Then the mixture is cooled. Every year , we throw away about 28 BILLION glass bottles and jars. We need to recycle all these glass containers. I think that there should be a "bottle bill" (like there used to be) which would require consumers to pay deposits on bottles and then refund the deposits when the bottles are returned. I remember, as a child, my brother and I loved to take soft drink bottles back to the store because we got to keep the refund for ourselves. Who knew?