With the EPA¡¦s promotion of resource recycling over the last decade, waste glass bottles have been put to much broader reuse, for example as a component in tiles for paving roads, or being reprocessed into brightly colored glaze as a building material. Over the last two years the amount of recycled glass bottles reached 227,000 tons, which is 4.2 times the 54,000 tons recycled in 1999. The EPA points out that ¡V after sorting by types and colors, removal of non-glass materials, crushing and washing ¡V waste glass bottles can be made into a resource material for continued use. (Published on EPA web)
