cullet

[kuhl-it]

noun

1. broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.

cullet

/ ˈkʌlɪt /

noun

1. waste glass for melting down to be reused

Word History and Origins

Origin of cullet¹

1810–20; variant of collet < Italian colletto glass blower's term, literally, little neck. See col, -et

Word History and Origins

Origin of cullet¹

C17: perhaps variant of _collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc)

Example Sentences

Among them: Shin’en Kan, the Bartlesville, Okla., home of oil heir Joe Price, clad in Kentucky coal and highlighted with “starburst” glass tube windows; the onion-shaped, red steel tube-affixed Ford House in Aurora, Ill.; and the Bavinger House in Norman, Okla., a spiraling mound of sandstone anchored around a central mast and employing, among many other materials, oil field drill stems, recycled glass cullet and steel aircraft struts.

From Los Angeles Times

She sourced more of these chunks, called cullet, from West Virginia, loading her Jeep and hauling hundreds of pounds of glass rocks through the mountains back to her Philadelphia studio.

From New York Times

“It’s getting more rare,” she said of the cullet.

From New York Times

The cullet is made from glass from kerbside collections and bottle banks, which is processed in a recycling hub at the port.

From BBC

It could be sold to glassmakers who would use it in their furnaces to make a new batch - the addition of cullet makes the melting temperature lower.

From BBC