Hay Bros Crushed Glass Load Question...

[Kisatchie]

I have a Hay Bros green crushed glass load, but I'm wondering if there would be such loads in 1971. I can't recall when the recycling business got started in earnest. Anyone?


Hmm... I compost all my
banana peels...

[PAL_Houston]

In 1971, we used to pay a hefty deposit on beer bottles, which were re-used by all major bottlers.  But I don't know what the bottlers did with their rejects.  They may indeed have collected carloads and sent them to be recycled.

[Hornwrecker]

Large breweries usually had part of a siding next to the bottling plant where a hopper or gondola would be spotted to load broken glass bottles (culm?) from an angled chute.  The cars were sent back to the glass maker to be reused for new beer bottles.  I assume that this practice has been going on since there were railroads, and is still going on in some places,

[Kisatchie]

Large breweries usually had part of a siding next to the bottling plant where a hopper or gondola would be spotted to load broken glass bottles (culm?) from an angled chute.  The cars were sent back to the glass maker to be reused for new beer bottles.  I assume that this practice has been going on since there were railroads, and is still going on in some places,

I guess I'll keep the load then. Heck, I might even buy some more loads.


Hmm... yeah, a unit
train's worth...

[parkrrrr]

(culm?)

Close. Cullet.