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Originally Posted by Rob
when glass is "recycled" its pretty much never melted down. It is ground up and used in different ways. At the recycling center (worked there for about 6 months) we crushed the glass and it was sold for a number of uses from being made into media for sand blasting, to being sold for use under asphalt.
You can use it to make beads if you wish, just don't mix the glass from different bottles and you'll be fine. sure it means spacers only but hey ya gotta make spacers anyhow.
btw most bottle glass is in the 80-89 coe.
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If you read the information on these sites, they do remelt their glass and for that reason, only accept bottle glass - no window, pyrex or crystal.
http://www3.niu.edu/recycling/alum_facts/page3.html
http://www.gpi.org/recycling/faq/#faq2
It does mention about different uses for glass that is not recyclable, such as sandblasting, etc.