Our Landfill wants to partner with our recycling facility in Alaska. Our challenge is shipping it to a plant after it is crushed. I wish there was a market here maybe to use as filler in our roads
If only we could put three recycling containers for white, green and brown glass at every street intersection so that people could sort the still-whole bottles by color for us! - Oh, wait, Germany does that?
I am about to use glass sand to replace natural sand in concrete for my scholarship experiment，I want to know if I could use small crushing machine to crush waste glass into glass sand？Thanks.
Infinitely recyclable, with a turnaround of potentially 3 days. So why isn't it mandatory to recycle glass? The "waste management" company that collects my garbage doesn't recycle glass; they just transport it to a landfill... why is that allowed? They demand customers cherry-pick and sort recyclables that can be easily profitable but don't recycle glass because it's too expensive for them to process.
When Inwas a kid. My grandfather bought his beer by the case at the local brewery. He would stick the empty bottles back in the case and return them for a discount on the next one. The brewery just sent the bottles back through the filling line after they went through washing and sanitizer machine. Recycling is not new. Our grandparents and great grandparents did it long before. The problem is society changed now everything is disposable for companies to save money or in most cases to make extra money..😊😊
I’m amazed to hear it’s possible to separate green/brown/white glass automatically on an industrial scale. Meanwhile in Europe we will put this task on customer, to throw glass in containers according to the colors. It would be so much easier to have one container for all and an idnautrial separator, like in this video.
Yeah, but it probably ends up costing more that way. Did you ever think about that? The U.S knows it's citizens are too stupid/lazy to be bothered throwing the right coloured glass in the right place, so they rely on the factories to do that.
We need several of these plants in every state ASAP. Coke and Pepsi should be made use only glass bottles that are returnable (and reusable) like in the 1970's. The age of making local taxpayers pay for Coca Cola's plastic trash (at their local landfill) is over. Support a "Bottle Bill" in your state.
I've wondered about one thing. Clear, green, and brown/amber glass are common and easily sorted for recycling back into similar colored. But what about other color? I've seen red, blue, orange, and milk (white) glass. Do you offer mixed unsorted color for use where color don't matter, such as making glass bead for paint cans?
Why don't we go back and replace 1 time use plastic with glass containers like we use to. They would not even to sort the glass if they used it in road and other fill projects.
Almost 50 years ago l had 10 trucks bringing in glass 6 days a week, the price l got at that time in UK was 50 pounds, as soon as all the 'expensive' recycling programs started l need to sell up and put all workers in the street, recycling is expensive, same with paper.
Please answer my question, how do you sort glass into three different colors? Do you use people to sort them or do you sort of them some sensory machines which can identify the colour and sort them ?
The sad thing about recycling glass is that it is very energy intensive to re-use as glass vessels. Now, in the USA, your energy is mostly non-renewable, so the carbon emitted as a result of the recycling is woefully high. :(
@@Ashleekaa for standart bottles that works already in some places but for lots of bottles with different designs thats not worth the time to sort and ship them back...have a look at how many different bottle designs there are for wine and liquor...you want to send every empty wine bottle back to the winery it came from? or is it more convenient for you to just toss it in a container wich gets to some plant like that?
@@Ashleekaa well good luck getting the companys to agree one one design and not stand out in the shelf. and same with the consumer then picking some standart design bottle and not the fancy looking one.
@@smi1896 I can't visualise that properly. Say if I wanted to get a label off a bottle myself, I'd use really hot water with some sort of wire wool, and give it it a really hard scrub, and then go back over the places where it didn't come off. How could all that be done on pieces of glass that are broken? I can't picture glue would just come off by being air blown!
