The Recycling Of Waste Glass

 Recycling is one method used to minimize the amount of waste that is to increase its economic value to goods that are useful. Recycling is a process for reduce the use of new raw materials, reduce energy use, reduce pollution, land degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions when compared to new manufacturing processes.

The material consists of recycled waste glass, plastic, paper, metals, textiles, and electronic goods. Although similar, the composting process that generally uses waste biomass which can be degraded by nature, are not categorized as a recycling process. Recycling is more focused on waste that can not be degraded by natural naturally by reducing land degradation. Broadly speaking, recycling is the process of garbage collection, sorting, cleaning, and processing of new materials for the production process.

One of the recycling business is the product made from recycled glass. Many of the methods used by the craftsmen to turn waste glass into the recycling business by utilizing glass used as a base for the manufacture of handicrafts. One of them is an art form of glass craft from flying glass materials. Besides impressed luxury, unique shape will attract consumers. This could be a pretty lucrative business opportunities in handicrafts made from broken glass.

Materials needed to make various crafts of glass is broken glass or broken bottles, jars used, and other used goods made of glass. After collection, the following are the processing steps.

• Clean the glass from contaminating materials, and wash.

• Once completely clean, the glass material is melted in a furnace for 24 hours with a temperature of 1,500 degrees Celsius.

• Once completely melted, form the glass as you wish.

• Fusion of this glass can also be used as road construction material and road construction called glassphalt. Glassphalt road coating material that uses 30 percent recycled glass material.

Besides melted, the glass material can be cut into pieces and modified into the desired shapes. For example, the form of toy and miniature historic buildings.

Various shapes can be in the form of waste glass into new shapes with added value in it. Starting from flower vases, lamp shades, as well as a new form of toys, among other things, the form of firearms, trains, cars, helicopters, motorcycles, horse cart, rickshaw, and musical instruments drums, arches, decorative lamps and others. The price offered was quite varied

Here is an example result of recycling of waste glass: