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The glass is recycled into sheets thatt are guaranteed 100% post consumer waste.

The original chemical composition consists approximately of:
SiO2 74% Silica
Na2 14% Sodium oxide
CaO 11% Calcium oxide
Al2 O3 1% Aluminium oxide

(Source: British Glass website: www.britglass.co.uk)

Small amounts of other oxides may have been added as a colorant to different batches to vary or stabilise the various colours (such as iron - green, brown, blue).

Colours available:
CODE COLOUR
BG1.1 Clear
BG1.2 Clear (green tint)
BG1.3 Clear (rain glass)
BG2.1 Blue
BG2.2 Blue ink
BG3.1 Green (blue tint)
BG3.2 Green (yellow tint)
BG3.3 Green (olive)
BG3.4 Green pale (yellow tint)
BG4.1 Yellow light
BG4.2 Yellow dark
BG5.1 Amber light (gold)
BG5.2 Amber ginger
BG5.3 Amber dark

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- “… I was looking at the bottle thinking, ‘if that was half the colour it would be the piece
  of glass that I need’ …”
- The Recycled Bottle Glass Centre’s products are all made from 100% recycled post-
  consumer glass bottle waste.
- the glass that we make is very cheap, but of better quality.”
  
  recycling centrally is inefficient, we'’ve always thought that the way to approach that is to do it locally ”
  Why Bother Recycling Glass

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art produced from our glass bottle recycling process

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