Glass recyclingGlass recycling is the processing of waste glass into usable products. Glass that is crushed or imploded and ready to be remelted is called cullet. There are two types of cullet: internal and external. Internal cullet is composed of defective products detected and rejected by a quality control process during the industrial process of glass manufacturing, transition phases of product changes (such as thickness and color changes) and production offcuts. External cullet is waste glass that has been collected or reprocessed with the purpose of recycling.
Métal pauvreEn chimie, un métal pauvre, parfois appelé métal de post-transition ou métal post-transitionnel, est un élément chimique métallique situé, dans le tableau périodique, entre les métaux de transition à leur gauche et les métalloïdes à leur droite. Le terme métal pauvre est assez peu employé, et en concurrence avec diverses autres appellations, également peu employées, recouvrant des notions apparentées, par exemple métal du bloc p ; il rend compte du fait que les propriétés métalliques de ces éléments sont les moins marquées de l'ensemble des métaux.
ScrapScrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap has monetary value, especially recovered metals, and non-metallic materials are also recovered for recycling. Once collected, the materials are sorted into types — typically metal scrap will be crushed, shredded, and sorted using mechanical processes.
