Gabbert Industries is a factory that collects cullet which is scrap glass that will later be used in the manufacturing of new glass. Below you see several pictures of the piles of cullet that accumulate at the factory. The glass must be picked up and sorted based on size and or color and then it is resold to glass manufacturers to be used to make more glass.
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Gabbert Cullet
Gabbert collects cullet from many of the local manufacturers of glass including Fenton and Blenko glass. In turn other companies like Marble King may buy the cullet from Gabbert for use in their own glass products.
Blenko Cullet
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Marble King Cullet
This continuous recycling of glass is very important to the environment for a variety of reasons. Please go the following website to watch two videos that will help develop your understanding of how recycling of glass is very important to our environment.
http://www.captaincullet.com/recycling_animations.html
After watching the animations design a poster on a clean sheet of white copy paper incorporating Captain Cullet and/or Little Gob that could be used to persuade the general public that recycling glass is an important consideration in our effort to protect the earth. Your poster should clearly support some of the reasons that Captain Cullet and Little Gob present in the videos.
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You and Kellie had the same idea about cullet. This is one lesson that I want to design for my Biology class.
ReplyDeleteGreat connection to your curriculum. Glass is the ultimate recyclable material and is an excellent example of how recycling saves energy and resources.
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