Welcome to the Glass Age

127 source, where different bottle banks are offered to consumers to dispose of their bottles according to their colors, or after collection, through an industrial sorting using selective optical sorting machines which sort by color. Notably, once glass has been sorted by color, there is no limitations in terms of recycling to make new colored bottles: Europe boasts colored bottle production of over 90% of cullet. All green, amber and flint bottles can be infinitely recycled in a closed loop, and as glass is a permanent material, there is no degradation of the Figure 8.1. Latest available data on the levels of container glass recycling in Europe. Source: www.closetheglassloop.eu Container glass collection for recycling in Europe