Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In glass manufacturing, refuse and broken glass, especially crown-glass, collected for remelting.
- noun Same as
culet , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Broken glass for remelting.
- noun A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See
collet , 3 (b).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scrap
glass which is melted down forreuse . - noun A small
central plane in the back of acut gem .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The example illustrating the environmental folly of recycling glass into cullet is well put, however a wealth of life cycle analyses of different material streams have been published, the majority of which suggest that recycling tends to be the preferred waste management option from an environmental perspective.
The Waste of Recycling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Eventually, the amount of CRT "cullet" - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling.
Analysis 2010
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Eventually, the amount of CRT 'cullet' - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling.
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Eventually, the amount of CRT "cullet" - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling.
Livescience.com 2010
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Eventually, the amount of CRT 'cullet' - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling.
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Less than two years after its local launch, the private venture is now grinding thousands of tons of jars and bottles from a five-state area into a crushed glass product called cullet.
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Less than two years after its local launch, the private venture is now grinding thousands of tons of jars and bottles from a five-state area into a crushed glass product called cullet.
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I think that clearly we are seeing eventually then also cullet, which is the broken glass and the post-consumer glass generally moving perhaps with some delay in line with what soda ash prices is doing so it would also eventually be affected.
Owens-Illinois CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010
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The challenge is that the main ingredient in glass, sand, is plentiful and cheap _ often cheaper than cullet, which is glass that has been prepared for recycling.
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The challenge is that the main ingredient in glass, sand, is plentiful and cheap - often cheaper than cullet, which is glass that has been prepared for recycling.
Front Page - The Washington Times Mead Gruver ASSOCIATED PRESS 2009
reesetee commented on the word cullet
In glassmaking, raw glass or pieces of broken glass from a cooled melt, meant to be used as an ingredient of a batch; or scrap glass intended for recycling.
November 9, 2007