In 2017 more than 11.4 million tons of solid glass waste was produced.Since the last 3 decades glasses have been used in many construction elements mainly in GFRC. While using the glass, the glasses cant be directly used in the construction process and first it needs to be molded into shapes and size and nature as required. While adding chemicals to the glass or while melting the glass to give different shape and sizes what further effect will it carry? Is it possible to complete eradicate the solid glass waste either by recycling or by using it as a construction material? And also can glasses replace the aggregates or sand?
Well,
Economically, recycling is the best but can be resized to sand mesh and mixed with raw materials to be used as consructed materials.
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Yes It has been proven that using glass powder as an aggregate replacing it in place of fine aggregate in the ratio to 1:3 in concrete helps to increase the flexural strength up to 3 times than that of original strength.
And there are already methods to separate out glass alone from bulk waste but its a costly method.
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