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Longwei is a professional manufacturer of glass bottles and lids with over 20 years of production experience.
1. Significance of recycling waste glass
In China, the amount of waste glass is considerable, and about 50 million tons of waste glass will be produced a year. By recycling and utilizing waste glass, there are not only economic benefits, but also significant environmental benefits.
Recycling a ton of waste glass, the benefits to the environment and resources are:
① It can save 720 kg of quartz sand, 250 kg of soda ash, 60 kg of feldspar powder, 10 tons of coal and 400 degrees of electricity.
②One ton of waste glass can regenerate 20,000 500g bottles after returning to the furnace, which saves 20% of cost than producing with new raw materials.
③The energy saved by recycling a glass bottle can make a 100-watt light bulb light up for about 4 hours, can make a computer run for 30 minutes, and can watch 20 minutes of TV programs.
2. Recycling of waste glass
At present, the waste glass recycling treatment methods are mainly divided into: as a foundry flux, transformation and utilization, furnace recycling, raw material reuse and reuse.
① Used as a casting flux
Crushed glass can be used as a melt for casting steel and casting copper alloy melting, to cover the melt to prevent oxidation.
②Recycling
Recycled glass is processed and then melted back to the furnace to make glass containers, glass fibers, etc.
③Reuse of raw materials
Crushed glass is called clinker in the glass industry. According to research, adding a certain percentage of crushed glass can help melt the glass at a lower temperature and can reduce energy consumption.
④ Reuse
The intact glass bottles can be recycled back for reuse, such as beer bottles, soda bottles, vinegar bottles, etc.
⑤ Transformation and utilization after processing
After the pre-treated broken glass is reprocessed into fine glass particles, it has many uses in other fields:
★ Used as filler for roads. Using glass pellets as a combination of road surface can reduce accidents of vehicles sliding sideways better than other materials, and the wear and tear of road surface will be reduced. With glass pellets, light reflection is also more appropriate and the snow on the road melts relatively faster.
★ Used in construction. When glass pellets are mixed with construction materials and other materials, the resulting construction products have higher dimensional accuracy and strength and are relatively less costly.
3. Precautions when discarding waste glass
In order to prevent sanitation workers from being scratched by broken glass pieces when carrying out garbage collection, they should be treated before they are put out. The general treatment method is to use tape and cardboard to wrap the broken glass, which can reduce the probability of injury to sanitation workers.
Garbage is just a misplaced resource, in the face of depleting resources at the moment, want to recycle these resources, it is necessary to sort from the source.
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