A badly damaged Toyota Prius. Designed for safety during powerful collisions, tempered window glass breaks apart into tiny, rounded pieces, while laminated windshield glass cracks but remains in the ...

A photograph of a cullet sorting machine in action. A suite of sensors enables sorting equipment to quickly purify crushed glass, or cullet, for recycling. Credit: Strategic Materials If you could ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Despite its many advantages, glass has one major Achilles' heel – it’s brittle. Now, engineers at Penn State have developed LionGlass, a new type of the material that’s not only 10 times more damage ...

Goodwill Industries of West Michigan and American Glass Mosaics launched a partnership in mid-2024 that transforms unsold ...

European industry association PV Cycle estimates a 10 MW solar site will eventually produce 700 tons of waste material. It is becoming increasingly clear that PV modules need end-of-life protocols – ...

The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is increasingly moving toward the use of recycled raw materials in the production of its thermoplastic compounds and composites. One of the most recent examples is ...

Recent research uncovers the earliest Venetian glassmaking, showing Venice as an advanced trade and innovation hub.

Iittala, a pioneer of Nordic design and a brand developed by Fiskars Japan Co., Ltd., embodies the essence of Nordic living and is adding seven new items to its hugely popular Recycled Glass ...