Glass Container & Bottle Manufacturing worked example
Culled Glass Cost at 110% culled cost capture share: a worked example
Push culled cost capture share up to 110% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when a bottle plant needs to quantify inspection culls, breakage, re-melt handling, packed ware loss, customer rejects, or scrap exposure in production or quote reviews.
The inputs for this scenario
- Culled or broken containers: 1,850 containers (unchanged)
- Cost per culled container: 0.32 $ / container (unchanged)
- Culled cost capture share: 110 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 100)
- Fixed cull handling cost: 450 $ (unchanged)
Working through the calculation
- Applying the documented formula (Variable culled glass cost = culled or broken containers × cost per culled container × culled cost capture share) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
- At this operating point the engine returns 1,101 $ for total culled glass cost, the number this scenario is built around.
- At this operating point the engine returns 0.6 $ / piece for culled cost per lost container.
- At this operating point the engine returns 651 $ for variable culled glass cost.
- At this operating point the engine returns 450 $ for fixed cull handling cost.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where culled cost capture share sits at 100% and the headline result is 1,042 $, this scenario comes in 5.68% above the baseline at 1,101 $.
- It computes the total cost of culled and broken containers, combining a variable per-container cost adjusted by a recovery share with a fixed handling cost. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.
Results at a glance
- Total culled glass cost: 1,101 $ (headline result)
- Culled cost per lost container: 0.6 $ / piece
- Variable culled glass cost: 651 $
- Fixed cull handling cost: 450 $
Run it with your numbers
- Every input above is editable in the live Culled Glass Cost calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.