SAND is running out across the world amid fears there may not be enough to make two billion Covid jab glass vials, experts warn. Before the pandemic, there was already a shortage of sand which ...

Specifically, this means strong vials ... glass found in windowpanes or food and beverage containers, borosilicate glass is made primarily from silicon dioxide, the main constituent of sand.

Evercore analyst Vijay Kumar said U.S. vials were already in low supply because the type of sand needed to make the glass was itself running scarce. William Schaffner, M.D., professor of ...

NEW CASTLE, Del. (CBS) – Staff at the Goodwill of Delaware unveiled a new glass pulverizer machine designed to help address sustainable fixes to excess glass waste and a growing global sand ...