Meaning of cullet in English:

noun

• Recycled broken or waste glass used in glass-making.

  More example sentences

  • ‘It goes without saying that the broken glass or cullet used had to be of the required colour or clear, so that no expensive new minerals were added to colour it.’
  • ‘One of our earliest industrial containers, glass is made by melting sand, soda ash, limestone, and cullet (recycled crushed glass) in furnaces heated to 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.’
  • ‘Approximately 80 per cent of the glass now being made in Irish Glass is from cullet or recycled glass.’
  • ‘Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).’
  • ‘For some purposes, it is possible to make glass entirely of cullet.’