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Recycled glass can be mixed with virgin stone chip to make asphaltic concrete. (Which of course uses fossil fuels for the bitumen; possibly even more than the
by tuatoru 6y ago
Recycled glass can be mixed with virgin stone chip to make asphaltic concrete.
(Which of course uses fossil fuels for the bitumen; possibly even more than the equivalent mass of Portland cement concrete.)
I'm not aware of any other significant uses for recycled glass.
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- xenadu02 6y agoNearly all glassmaking involves adding all the glass bits you cut off or broke back into the kiln. Almost no glass is actually 100% virgin glass. So glass is absolutely recyclable. The only caveat is colored glass can only really be used to make the same color glass (at least economically).
- tuatoru 6y agoI should have said, post-consumer glass.