Beer bottles could help clean up lead pollution - Updated
Posted Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:55:00 GMT by Laura Goodall
The beer bottles we throw into our recycling bins could ultimately help clean up water polluted with lead, thanks to a new development by scientists at the University of Greenwich, London. Nichola Coleman, a materials chemist at Greenwich, has come up with a way of reusing cullet, fragments of glass jars and bottles, to create a naturally-found rock mineral called tobermorite.
Beer bottles could help clean up lead pollution - Updated