cullet
- noun
- /ˈkʌlɪt/
- Specialized
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cullet
- The glass cullet met the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation requirements for intermittent stream standards.
- mixed cullet
- cullet (recycled glass)
Examples
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The strongest interest, so far, has come from a firm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which is conducting a feasibility study on the RGP product as a potential commercial use for mixed cullet.
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The cullet could be used as a substitute for silica, Siegmund says.
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Beyond the bottle market, one of the largest users of cullet (recycled glass) is the fiberglass industry.
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The filter media was made up of crushed, mixed-color recycled container glass cullet.
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Solomon also believes that by processing recycled mixed-color cullet, RGP will be able to save money over its competitor.
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Opportunities for creating marketable materials from paper mill sludge, mixed cullet, and low-grade plastics are now being fulfilled.
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The demand for cullet, the industry term for waste glass, is greater than the supply in Houston because of the low rate of recycling here.
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The old glass, or cullet, must first be checked for impurities.
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Beyond the bottle market, one of the largest users of cullet (recycled glass) is the fiberglass industry.
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Etymology
Cullet comes from an old French word cul meaning 'bottom', because cullet was originally the leftover bits at the bottoms of broken bottles. So think of cullet as the 'bottom pieces' of glass that are collected and melted to make new glass.