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Ancient Romans Recycled Glass

First Posted: 10/25/10 11:04 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:05 PM ET

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The 21st century's three Rs -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- were all the rage in Britain during the last century of Roman rule, a compositional analysis of ancient Roman glass tableware has revealed.

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The 21st century's three Rs -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- were all the rage in Britain during the last century of Roman rule, a compositional analysis of ancient Roman glass tableware has revealed.
The 21st century's three Rs -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- were all the rage in Britain during the last century of Roman rule, a compositional analysis of ancient Roman glass tableware has revealed.
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02:19 PM on 10/27/2010
This really only makes sense. If glass making material is in short supply it only seems logical to reuse broken vessels in other works. I wish we thought the same way about plastic and glass these days. We have plenty of plastic and glass in landfills to reuse forever; there's no need to make new product. We could truly begin to clean up our environment by simply reusing what we have now.
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A modest proposal...
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09:07 AM on 10/26/2010
Tree huggers! Lib'rals! This is why their commie-Kenyan empire went ker-plooey! And by the way, what have the Romans ever done for us?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
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