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.
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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.
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Momentum's new facility now produces high-quality cullet for use in bottle manufacturing and in other industries.
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Origin and Etymology of cullet
perhaps from French cueillette act of gathering, from Latin collecta, from feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere
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