How to turn waste glass into treasure?

All kinds of glass products play an important role in our lives, such as cups, bottles, lamps, mobile phone and computer screens, etc., which are durable, high heat resistance, beautiful and other characteristics.

What is the recycling process for waste glass? It turns waste into treasure and returns to the consumer? Let's take a look~

Note: Most glass products are recyclables, and recyclables should be kept clean and dry to avoid contamination during disposal.

Waste glass recycling process

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glass on the market is mainly divided into colorless, green, brown transparent glass, glass garbage delivery must be handled with care to pay attention to safety issues, so as not to hurt themselves and garbage recycling personnel, the recycled glass will be transported to professional glass processing manufacturers.

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Because the source of many waste glass is beverage bottles, which will have wrapping paper attached to them, aluminum strips circled around the bottle mouth, etc., the first step in garbage disposal is to remove impurities, and the first process after entering the factory is to use a forklift to stir-fry them repeatedly. Fall from the highest place and shatter.

This operation ensures that the fragments are relatively large and easy to concentrate, and it is also convenient to send them to the crawler for manual picking, and pick out the wrapping paper and aluminum strips that are about to fall off from the glass.

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The glass here comes in a variety of colors, and they have different values and different uses depending on the color.

Use the light transmittance of the glass and the optical spectrum analyzer to separate them. Highly crushed, there are different uses after being made into glass sand, and the white glass sand can be directly melted and reused to make glass products and return to the market. Variegated glass is mainly used as a filler for building materials.

Creativity in the recycling of waste glass

and creative products

A fantastic glass regeneration product

——Foamed fireproof bricks

Candles are placed on top of ordinary bricks and foamed fireproof bricks made of glass sand, and then heated with fire underneath to test the heat transfer. After heating for a period of time, the candle on the ordinary brick slowly melts, while the candle on the fire rotor still does not change, and the surface temperature of the ordinary brick reaches 130 degrees by comparison with the thermometer. The temperature of the fireproof bricks is maintained in a comfortable range. Building a house with this material is eco-friendly, comfortable and safe.

Exquisite glass artwork

- Waste glass recycling

Ivan Bestari Minar Pradipta, an artist from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. On an ordinary day in 2011, when he first met an old man in his hometown who used the ancient glassblowing method to make glassware, he fell in love with glass art and fell in love with the craft.

Later, through his continuous efforts, through the use of flames, he succeeded in transforming discarded glass into exquisite glass works of art, and gradually developed his own unique style.