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Fiberglass is roughly glass in the fiber form. Glass was recycled for ages, just melt it and produce new products from molten glass.
by avmich 7y ago
Fiberglass is roughly glass in the fiber form. Glass was recycled for ages, just melt it and produce new products from molten glass.
- protastus 7y agoFiberglass is a composite that contains a lot of resin. It's not pure glass.
- avmich 7y agoResin can be chemically removed or even burned out. Surely it's a question of economy, among other things, but at least we have a choice of technological approaches.
- eru 7y agoYou could do that, but that would be getting rid of most of what makes fibreglass interesting and expensive. Recycling glass isn't that much better than just using fresh sand.