Gabbert Cullet Company - Williamstown, WV

The Gabbert Cullet Company specializes in the recycling of  glass we call cullet.  Cullet is broken, unused, or waste pieces of glass that are collected to be reused.  One would think broken glass would have no use, but actually, there are many ways we can reuse it to save money and resources.

Gabbert generally buys silica cullet from glass manufacturing companies by the truck load - usually by the ton.  

 

Once the cullet is brought to the facility by truck, it is then sorted by color; and sometimes size. (Special orders that require a certain size of cullet can be sorted in a machine called a "Shaker") 

Once the glass has been sorted by color, it is then placed in the appropriate bay for storage as seen below:

When cullet if finally bought, it is either boxed or packaged in barrel (as pictured below) and shipped. 

 Gabbert currently charges $ .85 per pound of cullet.

How Can It Be Used?

Gabbert Cullet usually sells its cullet either as a landscaping component or to practicing glass

artists/artisans who will remelt it and use it again. Watch this!!

Although these were the only applications

Gabbert sells for, cullet has a variety of uses.

Assignment

After reviewing the video above and other uses cullet can play in our lives, consider the following and respond to each:

• Which uses of cullet surprise you the most? Why?
• What ways would you most likely use cullet considering what you've learned it can be used for?
• Are there any uses that stand out as being the most important application? 
• What are some other ways cullet could possibly be used - besides what has been discussed above?  Would the cullet have to be altered in any way to be able to use it?  If so, how and why?