Errr... A glass bottle?
Fun. I spent an entire day researching this and 75 minutes summarizing this for you guys--into a little over a page in Word.
It is 0330, I still haven't written any those progress reports that were due tonight. I haven't even found the tab for it, although I did close a number of tabs.
I have needed to put Lappy back to sleep 11 times so far.
Stay asleep!
So, recycling. I posted once that my roommates refused to recycle. One said "It can use more resources than garbage" and everyone else swore off trying to recycle because sometimes.
There are those who refuse to recycle because they insist wage slaves should separate the pizza grease from their pizza boxes.
Many people say "Don't use plastic! It is choking the ocean!"
I don't have any idea where to recycle glass. Supposedly there is a place in Pinetop Lakeside, but I can't find an address on-line, and I only found out that much recently.
I remembered a video of glass recycling machines the size of a soda machine which would pulverize it into dust, it would be shipped to Owens Corning, and they would spin fiberglass out of it.
Funny, the slivers I get from setting up tents with fiberglass tent poles don't seem to have anything to do with glass and sand, but they pulverize bottles and spin the sand into fiberglass!
Well, they convert it into cotton candy first. Do that, The King of Random!
Nevermind, they got... weird.
Here is a similar machine, but they just dump the pulverized glass on the beach:
Yes, because it was sand. Somehow I thought you would get tiny shards of glass, but maybe that depends on how you get it.
Apparently desert sand is too round from being blown against each other for millennia—or an epoch—and isn’t suitable for concrete. These pulverizers pulverize pulverizedly and the grains of sand are just rounded enough, useful for all industries, but not going to shred your skin. I believe they said they used rounded hammers, which wouldn’t leave it jagged like square hammers would.
This process is explained here:
I have three boxes of bottles in the garage because I should be able to recycle them somewhere and the glass we use slowly adds up.
I couldn't find that video, but I spent all day researching it.
Can I pulverize bottles myself and then use the sand for aircrete?
Yes, but I don't want to.
In the first video I saw about this she complained that they needed to transport glass hundreds of miles and I think that is a large part of the reason that many cities no longer recycle glass.
These college students couldn’t recycle glass, so they researched it, and started smashing it themselves. They sell some of it to glass manufacturers and they use the rest to attempt to fight flooding and eroding.
I shared this on Imgur and it was one of my most popular posts, but most comments were telling people who would never see my content how they should and shouldn’t use the sand they made and saying “Duh, you make glass from sand, if you crush glass you just make sand!”
Except the post-consumer sand is one-third other ingredients.
They received a grant to establish it isn't harmful:
It looks like the problem is that Americans won't separate recyclables like Europeans.
Americans won't separate recyclables from trash...
https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorga...S-broken/97/i6