cullet
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Definition of cullet
: broken or refuse glass usually added to new material to facilitate melting in making glass
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Momentum buys all the broken glass, cleans it, separates it by color, and refines it into what is called cullet. — Administrator_test, The Denver Post, "Denver recycled just 20 percent of its household waste in 2016," 5 Mar. 2017 The cullet will be delivered to Owens-Illinois’ bottlemaking plant in Windsor, about 20 miles down the road from the Budweiser brewery and partners with MillerCoors at Rocky Mountain Bottle Co. in Wheat Ridge. — The Denver Post, "This new Colorado glass recycling plant can process 80,000 tons a year," 3 Mar. 2017 Momentum's new facility now produces high-quality cullet for use in bottle manufacturing and in other industries. — The Denver Post, "This new Colorado glass recycling plant can process 80,000 tons a year," 3 Mar. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cullet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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