Most people toss a glass bottle into the recycling bin without a second thought. It's a small, almost automatic gesture. Yet ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

The company said naturally produced soda ash is around 37% less greenhouse gas intensive that synthetic product. Image: Solarcycle US solar recycling firm Solarcycle has signed a supply deal with US ...

Despite its many advantages, glass has one major Achilles' heel – it’s brittle. Now, engineers at Penn State have developed LionGlass, a new type of the material that’s not only 10 times more damage ...

The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...