While it's true that glass recycling is an established process, making glass, even using recycled materials, is energy intensive. Most glass making involves burning natural gas to heat the raw ...

Apr. 26—VALDOSTA — The Arglass company received the final shipment Tuesday of the 18 tons of recycled glass collected by Georgia students. The 18.6 tons of glass was collected in a contest ...

Called Porous Alpha, this ‘foamed glass’ product was developed by researchers at Tottori University in Japan, together with a private research organization, Tottori Resource Recycling.

The use of recycled glass in the production of new fiberglass insulation offsets the need for virgin, mined material such as sand. Recycled glass also melts at a lower temperature resulting in ...

Producing sustainable materials and products demands constant analysis of how we conserve resources and manage waste effectively. This unfolds within a scenario where the environmental impacts of ...

Those components can then be recycled or reused, while the vitrimer and glass fibers can get recycled into new vPCBs. The team tested its vPCB for strength and electrical properties, and found ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

PET can be recycled around 10 times. A UK Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles and aluminium cans (not glass) where consumers can receive a small cash sum for returning their containers to ...