I would just like to draw your attention to two new articles I have uploaded to the site on glass production and the benefits of recycling:

Glass Production

Glass products have been with us through a great deal of our known history and have always been an energy intensive product to create. While the basic materials of glass are fairly common they still require some energy expenditure to collect. The basic ingredients are fine silica sand or pulverized sandstone rock with a bit of calcium, oxide and lime. Depending on the quality of the finished product it can also contain an alkali of soda or potash which is used to lower the melting point and conserve at least a small bit of the energy required to melt these substances together [...]

Benefits of Glass Recycling:

Just in one month, nearly every single American throws out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper!  Every single one of these jars are 100% recyclable!  Just the energy saved from recycling one glass bottle alone can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours, not to mention it also causes about 20% less air pollution and over 50% less water pollution than when a company has to make a new bottle from raw materials [...]