Glass
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A ‘sliding scale’ for steel and glass?
Glass and steel are similar in many ways. They’re both made from raw materials originally mined from the earth: silica sand, trona, limestone and dolomite in the case of glass, iron ore in the case of steel; those raw materials are completely transformed by heating them to around 1500 degrees centigrade; and both glass and…
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Mining and ResponsibleGlass
It was great to see ResponsibleGlass and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) announce that they will be working together to address sustainability issues in the glass value chain. This was almost the first public announcement ResponsibleGlass has made. It raises two questions: firstly, why is it so important for ResponsibleGlass to work with…
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