If I was an engineer I would specialise in recycling and waste conversion, not because it's 'fashionable' to be 'green' but because it has so much potential. I've seen kitchen counter tops make from crushed glass, paving slabs from plastic bottle, sweaters from plastic bottles and so much more. Trash is cash. In the UK we say 'where there's muck there's money' !
I love how I can clearly hear how this interesting process works and learn about the machines involved without any annoying background noise at all. Thanks!
This has to be the most cordial and informed comment section on any video I've seen. If comments were always like this... this world could be a better place
This is sooo good. Everywhere in dumpsites of residential areas ,you find so many glass bottles and jars dumped ;a big hazard to human safety .Seeing this man recycle the glass is so amazing .I wish I can have that machine here in Kenya .
@Norm T so true, about 5 years ago I took a trip through coastal California, as an Oregonian I was surprised by how many bottles were just hanging out on the beach cliffs and enbeded into the sandstone
Wish our councils in Australia had this machine. At the moment there are far to many fools in the recycle game who are not fit for purpose. We need genuine clever people like this young man
In 1953 , (68 years ago for the arithmetically challenged) I worked for Kimble Glass Co. in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Most of our product lines were whiskey bottles for the major liquor companies in the States. We routinely "recycled" old glass bottles which were then used along with lime and other stuff which I don''t remember, to make the new glass bottles. The "recycling" we did was in large scale quantities commensurate with our high quantity production - I think we had 4 furnaces running continuously to supply the glass for several concurrent production lines. Old glass has routinely been a component of glass production because it requires less cost than mining and refining of new material.
way back in 1974 I worked for Owens Illinois Glass Factory located Parkrose, Oregon. They separated the glass in 3 colors, brown, clear, and green. Then crushed and then sprinkled over the electric furnace melting the mix back into molten glass to be blown into bottles and jars. you might contact them.
This is great since there is a sand shortage. I can only imagine the construction uses for this. Super excited to see this develop into common practice and get glass out of landfills.
I don't know what the costs of running those machines are compared to purchasing raw sand is, but it seems a good way of re-using glass in things like concrete. Also didn't realize it would revert back to sand colour when crushed fine enough, must be the way light refracts through the fine particles i guess.
Hammer mills take no prisoners, they are also very noisy and dusty, but they do the job. Eddy current and mag seps are also your friend. Thanks for the video, good luck selling your kit.
I was on a hammer mill project a long while ago. Our hammers was a manganese super duplex material. The rotor design was very similar to yours. We had a throughput of 25 tons per hour metric. Our feed was lead acid batteries. The hard part was the separation, we used a variety of conveyors, some screw but the main one was a giant chain mail conveyor for removing oxide sludge.
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I love to learn more about recycling. It really is an interesting subject. In everyday life you don't think about it. So many things can be recycled. It's amazing!
There was a creep up the road who was rumoured to have ‘recycled’ a couple of biker asshats into mulch. ♻️ Cops finally got him after 23 years thanks to them doing the annual Due Diligence and checking DNA 🧬 as new evidence. A neighbourhood rumour came true😲 At least there was no wastage...
How refreshing - an informative video with a sensible commentary and no goofy obtrusive extra noise ... oops, I mean music ... added. Neither was there any begging for likes and subscribes, meaning that you credit your viewers with sufficient intellect to know the function of those options. Well done and kudos to those concerned.
In the Netherlands glass recycling the glass will first be sorted in the different colours like white/brown/ green etc. Everywhere in The netherlands there are these Glass containers in which the consumers already dump the bottles according to the colours. Otherwise the different coulours would mix in an unwanted diffuse mixup.
They do that here in the US too. The thing is though the US is massive and decentralized so recycling initiatives are done on the local level village, town, city, or at most county (some counties are larger than the Netherlands).
Yeah, back in the 50's in South Africa we used to pay 4 pennies for a Coke and get a penny back on a Coke bottle......we made lots of pocket money after school that way.
@steve gale Yeah that is a concern until we go electric and with nearly everyone producing electricity one way or another for their needs and putting the rest to the grid transport costs are going to be near nothing.
@@gangleweed 26 cents per sub .5 liter plastic bottles (and brown glass), and 0.3 for any bottle above 0.5 liter in Norway 2020 I don't know why they don't put that kind of system on all types of glass containers, or plastic for that matter, because it's a great incentive to recycle those. I think it has something with licenses or something.... But some schools can collect 700-1200 usd in a "bottle collection day" around some neighborhoods, it keeps the streets clean and helps recycle those bottles that would most likely just end bu being thrown away in the trash if it wasn't for that $0.2-0.3 per bottle it's more of a 10:1 return policy and it works. We are working on implementing that same system, but in agricultural regions in developing countries like Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. people are more likely to recycle if they know they can get something back for it, and it would help poor people (especially children) a mean of extra income, in hopes of swaying them away from a life of crime.... that's the hope, the reality is probably it's going to get fucked by some politician :)
Nice setup. My glass crushers and screener got badly damaged during a truck wreck recently, so I'm looking for newer equipment now. I was just varying my speed to control the size output, but it makes a lot of dust at higher speeds. The glass does need to be very dry during processing
Nice, good work. You are defently going in the right direction. Consider colour sorting and then washing the glass maybe after the first crushing to remove food, paper and glue residues from the glass. The washing requires a drying step afterwards tho, so it might be not profitable enough. At my country (Germany) the glass can't get properly recycled if the colour contamination exceeds a certain percentage in one colour. One coloured glass can be mixed in with a new batch of glass in glass bottle production and can start a second life as beverage container.
I worked as a glass installer and I had the same assumption. They told me that each manufacturer of glass used a slightly different "recipe" of chemicals to make their specific types of glass. And that if you just tried to melt that down and mix it up together, it would not work because current methods (as of 2014) would not be able to get the different glasses to mix evenly. It would be patchy and those patches would be weak points that would break at the slightest thing, even temperature changes of one side being at 40F and the other being at 70F. So a 30° temperature differential could cause the glass to break from "heat stress" oddly enough. This guy has it right though, that sand can be used in cement as an alternative to regular sand. So not as much recycle as re-purposing.
crushing it makes it way easier to deal with. it's a lot easier to move around a plant and into batching machines and furnaces when it's a powder. at my plant we can blow the powder through 4 inch pipes up to a furnace 3 stories high using air pressure. you can't do that with bottles
this is great! very straight forward and easy to follow for uninformed viewers while staying interesting, well made and fun!! rlly glad to have come across this video :D
I run a pool maintenance business in Perth Australia, and we use crushed glass as media for pool filters. The theory behind it is that the glass grains have sharper edges than the grains of sand so they can collect the dirt from the water more efficiently than the naturally occuring sand grains... but honestly I don't see much difference in perfermance between 16/30gr sand and the fine glass in performance. But hey, customers ask for it and we provide. The glass is a multigrade of some kind, if you look close you can see that it is a mix of different coloured glass. It looks much like glass and is applied the same as glass, but if you spill any while filling the filter you want to sweep it up because unlike sand, kneeling on glass pieces will do you some damage.
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It always boggles my mind - all the processes and manufacturing that goes into container whose contents are consumed in a minute. If that same glass and manufacturing was used to make an actual drinking glass it would be used for decades.
So you want us to imagine something unimaginable? Are you trying to make my brain come up with a ‘does not compute message’? 🤯😆 5 ppl gave you a pass on that paradigm 😉
Yes, hopefully it will reduce the inconvenience of sand in the butt crack. Less sand on the beach will equal less sand crunching in ur hole at the beach. Can’t wait until this scourge is taken care of and the beaches are covered in glass! 😇😆
I work at a glass shop and sometimes we’ve been using our tempered glass waste as landscaping rock which looks cool in some cases especially if you have a zero scape yard.
Why crush so fine? We fabricated the structure 5 stories high for a recycling plant in Cape town. the glass is crushed to about the size you initially do. then its sorted to 5 colours using video cameras and a glass water fall with each piece of broken glass tracked and blown onto a specific conveyor with a air jet. plus minus 200 tons per shift. the sorted pieces ares stored in bunkers (cullet) and delivered to the appropriate furnace with massive cat front wns loaders. the fines (by product) are low value and are sent elswhere and get used as hydroponic growing medium. filter material and other uses
Another use is in the production of concrete in areas natural sand is expensive to produce by washing soils or because the waterways are protected for endangered species. Also, polished cement floors like in schools or government buildings (in the US) use glass to give high sheen and durability.
Appreciate the effort to share this to the world even though I don't think that I'll have much use of the information that I got from this video. It is still a nice thing to watch.
Hey government, invest more of our taxes in stuff like this. I got lots of waste glass and no local recycling, even if it needs a bit of assistance lets grow this market.
@@garrettholland664 we need to find a way to make it economical. It's better for the earth, we just need to find a way to make it better for our wallets as well.
The system you have is pretty workable for anything I would be using, seeing as I would only be using it either as concrete infill, or to make sodium silicate for reinforcing concrete.
If you compare the cost of the two. I have a hunch crushed sand as a waste of rock quarry, or sand from the river would be much cheaper. Broken bottles are more valuable to glass bottle maker.
Wow! Fascinating. Don't quite know how I fell in here, but nice video. Now, I'll be thinking of uses for the various fractions of recycled glass. Decorative & semi-structural applications come to mind. Thank you!
great video, would love to hear uses and self-sustainability of a glass crushing operation. Whether you can finance the machines after purchase and a man or two working with them or it is more of a problem. Also where would you use the crushed glass, in industry or making new bottles possibly. Nice video all in all, like it very much
I'm fascinated by this kind of stuff, so thanks for posting! I do have a question though, since there is no apparent pre-processing done to remove the labels on those bottles, how much does paper and adhesive affect the quality of the final product? Does this need to be further removed somehow, or does it all just flash-burn off when they re-form the glass into new feedstock? EDIT: Also, why isn't it necessary to separate the various colors of glass beforehand?
Paper or small amount of organic material don't affect the final product. since it oxidize at glass melting temperature into water and carbon dioxide. the only things need to be separated are, metals, ceramics, stones and plastics.
Great video! How the labels on the bottles separated? I would like to know more about setting up of this unit and how much is investment, capacity, maintence support etc.
Very I teresting video on the process of converting glass to fine sand. Out of curiosity, is the sand found on the beaches the same as this final recycled sand you produce? Also, it's incredible to know how sandblasting at very high PSI can take rust out of metal objects. I saw this firsthand at a company a friend of mine used to work at.
Very interesting ..I watch you thru Dan Hurd and tied into this vid after watching a vid outta New Orleans on recycling glass .The vid said there is an increasing demand for a coarser aggregate . And on a related note the same idea an uses in NEW HAMPSHIRE for road base. Because the glass doesnt absorb water it does nt freeze as a base for roads so cracking etc is highly reduced
I have used this recycled glass to lay block paving on in England it stinks a bit with it being mainly beer bottles and you have to keep it damp while compacting with a Vibrating plate but it doesn't move after you've laid the blocks Plus it's much cheaper than River/Concreting sand
The magnetic steel remover would be way more efficient if it were a stage, where the material is running on the actual belt, not the belt running over the material. Less magnetic force needed, more material removed. However probably 2 stages needed because of glass contamination after the first stage. At least that is how the local crushing line here is set up.
Love your work guys... I was curious if a wet shaker table would help sift small plastic and paper from the end product? I have thought long and hard on ways to recycle glass safely. Your system works, but the dust is extremely hazardous. I think a trommel style ball mill would work best, using water to prevent dust from escaping to harm the area, then having it feeding a shaker table to remove or wash the end product. Plastic and paper would wash out easily (possibly has a resale value), fine silica glass would run through (definite resale value), and metals would be recovered in particle sizes. Fewer moving parts and cleaner end materials?
Good job of making recycling a thing that get's more and more common! Though I had a few things I thought while I was watching: Ah look recycling catches on more and more even though it's still something that has to be done by the recycling guerillias... And then yy soul starts to bleed a lilttle when I see all the colours mixed together like that for the recycling process, might be because I'm German and have two collection places for recycling glass within 700m of my front door and they sort by no colour, green and brown/mixed/other colours glass. And then there was a plastic coke bottle in there, the HORROR! No honestly, over here you pay a 25€ct deposit at the store you get back when you return the bottles usually in form of a value coupon that subtracts the money from your total, only carbonated drinks though, that is basically BS in and on itself, it should also apply for juice etc. ! As for metall parts I usually add my lids to the plastic back since it's easier to sort that stuff for metall nonmetall and it's allowed in there, just make sure to pull an aluminum lid completely off the plastic container (yoghourt, etc.), otherwise we sort by paper, plastic, biodegradable residual waste, hazardous waste has to be brought to a collection site and 1-2 a year you can request old furniture etc. to be collected from the city waste management, or there are specific dates for a bigger collection efford. Now I need to mention that there are still many people in Germany that don't follow these rules and guidelines, I don't happen to sort biodegradables, I don't produce enough of that stuff, but other people don't sort at all! This can lead to getting rather hefty fines for a specialised sorting, if it can be pin pointed who's responsible that person has to pay for it on their own, otherwise these costs get divided for the whole house/all people renting there. Thus I consider people who throw everyting into one trash can and even go so far to contaminate somewhat sorted ones to be dickheads, at least where a mostly effective recycling system exists.
At least you have a system to collect the waste in a sorted way. In my opinion a collection system is the most important part to build a value chain to produce raw materials with a good quality, people are a variable that we can't control completely, the only solution for this point is education actions and try to build a society with good level of environmental education. Anyway, it's good to know that exists good systems of collection around the world and exists a lot of people as you that follow the rules and contribute to this system. I would like to have the same in Brazil, but is a distant scenario.
as far as i understand it mixing glass of different types like that will result in really awful rods, and glass in general. it would be very brittle if you could get anything, and beyond that it would crack if you tried to treat it after.
@@wsl3666 I appreciate that, but any crushing process also produces quantities of tiny particles as well as the desired grit/sand. If this set-up were indoors I'd definitely be wearing some good respiratory gear. I used to work in very high silica sand stone and the dust - much finer than the particle size of the stone itself - permeates everything. Even wet processes, unless they are very thoroughly set up, allow quite a high spread of dust.
This video helps so much with my tinnitus, could you make a high quality sound or ASMR version with just the glass crushing so I can sleep at night again??
Years ago I had a summer job working at a recycling center. Most of my time was spent on the glass line separating the colors (clear, brown, green, other) for separate processing. In the video it was all colors at once. Is that standard practice now? Just for demonstration?
since his just making sand it doenst seem to matter.But if he was selling glass bottles to someone to grind into new glass.Its probably like most things clear glass can be make into green or brown.but its harder i would assume to make brown glass or green into clear glass.
I feel every municipality should have one of these. If every municipality stepped up and got into recycling glass into sand, it could then be recycled into concrete for sidewalks and such.
No idea how I found this, but it's pretty interesting.
same here.
Well, most of interesting things doesn't have a solid reason to be, it's just.. a kind of personal pleasure
@@BlueClefto For sure.
Yeah
youtube algorithm is crazy
If I was an engineer I would specialise in recycling and waste conversion, not because it's 'fashionable' to be 'green' but because it has so much potential. I've seen kitchen counter tops make from crushed glass, paving slabs from plastic bottle, sweaters from plastic bottles and so much more. Trash is cash. In the UK we say 'where there's muck there's money' !
There is no trash, there is only unused raw material.
Where there’s muck there a buck. I like that
"really interested to hear from you guys in the glass recycling industry".
Sorry bro I'm just here because the algorithm told me to be.
same, still a nice video
Same.
yeap same. interesting that im now looking for crushing machine fabricators on my region.... like it.
Because you watched this video, You are now in the glass recycling industry
Some people probably searched for this and found useful information. Or probably they're "recycle guys" Cult lol
I love how I can clearly hear how this interesting process works and learn about the machines involved without any annoying background noise at all. Thanks!
This has to be the most cordial and informed comment section on any video I've seen.
If comments were always like this... this world could be a better place
Very true ... It is unusual to find a comment section not loaded down with senseless gibberish haha... 👍
This is sooo good. Everywhere in dumpsites of residential areas ,you find so many glass bottles and jars dumped
;a big hazard to human safety .Seeing this man recycle the glass is so amazing .I wish I can have that machine here in Kenya .
"How It's Unmade"
Remade
@@joemathisiii7834 The sand is remade and the bottle is unmade
🏆you win best comment...no abridging needed
Tfw trees are made from papers
@Norm T so true, about 5 years ago I took a trip through coastal California, as an Oregonian I was surprised by how many bottles were just hanging out on the beach cliffs and enbeded into the sandstone
Wish our councils in Australia had this machine. At the moment there are far to many fools in the recycle game who are not fit for purpose. We need genuine clever people like this young man
In 1953 , (68 years ago for the arithmetically challenged) I worked for Kimble Glass Co. in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Most of our product lines were whiskey bottles for the major liquor companies in the States. We routinely "recycled" old glass bottles which were then used along with lime and other stuff which I don''t remember, to make the new glass bottles. The "recycling" we did was in large scale quantities commensurate with our high quantity production - I think we had 4 furnaces running continuously to supply the glass for several concurrent production lines. Old glass has routinely been a component of glass production because it requires less cost than mining and refining of new material.
I didn't search for this, neither did you yet we're all here and watched all of it
All hail the TH-cam algorithms!
i searched it up
Right lmao
I serached it
I searched for it...to many beers haha
Random plastic bottle: "where are we going guys?"
Luke if you don't know now in this life you may regret it in the next time you come back
@Manetit plastic to oil, oil to fungi, fungi to plants
What are you guys even saying?
way back in 1974 I worked for Owens Illinois Glass Factory located Parkrose, Oregon. They separated the glass in 3 colors, brown, clear, and green. Then crushed and then sprinkled over the electric furnace melting the mix back into molten glass to be blown into bottles and jars. you might contact them.
This is great since there is a sand shortage. I can only imagine the construction uses for this. Super excited to see this develop into common practice and get glass out of landfills.
Recycling is the most important thing we MUST do for the sake of ourselves, the environment, and the entire planet. 👍🇺🇸
I don't know what the costs of running those machines are compared to purchasing raw sand is, but it seems a good way of re-using glass in things like concrete. Also didn't realize it would revert back to sand colour when crushed fine enough, must be the way light refracts through the fine particles i guess.
Hammer mills take no prisoners, they are also very noisy and dusty, but they do the job. Eddy current and mag seps are also your friend.
Thanks for the video, good luck selling your kit.
I was on a hammer mill project a long while ago. Our hammers was a manganese super duplex material. The rotor design was very similar to yours. We had a throughput of 25 tons per hour metric. Our feed was lead acid batteries. The hard part was the separation, we used a variety of conveyors, some screw but the main one was a giant chain mail conveyor for removing oxide sludge.
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roandomly getting into mining - here is mbmm on my youtube again
randomly interested in e waste - mbmm does it again
here i am wondering about recycling glass, heres mbmm. LOL This guys like a character in my rabbit hole that keeps providing all the info i need :D
Yep you would have an interesting journey with this chanel
I love to learn more about recycling. It really is an interesting subject. In everyday life you don't think about it. So many things can be recycled. It's amazing!
There was a creep up the road who was rumoured to have ‘recycled’ a couple of biker asshats into mulch. ♻️ Cops finally got him after 23 years thanks to them doing the annual Due Diligence and checking DNA 🧬 as new evidence. A neighbourhood rumour came true😲 At least there was no wastage...
breathe the air with glass particles and let us know .
Recycling is supposedly the least sustainable option, compared to reduce and re use..
How refreshing - an informative video with a sensible commentary and no goofy obtrusive extra noise ... oops, I mean music ... added. Neither was there any begging for likes and subscribes, meaning that you credit your viewers with sufficient intellect to know the function of those options. Well done and kudos to those concerned.
In the Netherlands glass recycling the glass will first be sorted in the different colours like white/brown/ green etc. Everywhere in The netherlands there are these Glass containers in which the consumers already dump the bottles according to the colours. Otherwise the different coulours would mix in an unwanted diffuse mixup.
They do that here in the US too. The thing is though the US is massive and decentralized so recycling initiatives are done on the local level village, town, city, or at most county (some counties are larger than the Netherlands).
@@enoughrope1638 Thanks for the input!
Same as in Germany, think all of eu has it. But I think it’s for recycling glass to glass, if you do glass to sand it doesn’t matter
@@IllIlllI Western europe, in the east it goes on the dump.
@@mattipauwels3374 - maybe there's a market for making glass sand and selling to sandblasting companies?
This guy’s answering questions I had but never asked and questions I didn’t know I had.
Ah for the good old days when recycling glass containers was just washing the damed things and refilling them.
Yeah, back in the 50's in South Africa we used to pay 4 pennies for a Coke and get a penny back on a Coke bottle......we made lots of pocket money after school that way.
It was Anchor-Hockings in 1955 that introduced the "one use tm" beer bottle.
10p to return a fizzy drink glass bottle in the 80's in the UK.. :)
@steve gale Yeah that is a concern until we go electric and with nearly everyone producing electricity one way or another for their needs and putting the rest to the grid transport costs are going to be near nothing.
@@gangleweed
26 cents per sub .5 liter plastic bottles (and brown glass), and 0.3 for any bottle above 0.5 liter in Norway 2020
I don't know why they don't put that kind of system on all types of glass containers, or plastic for that matter, because it's a great incentive to recycle those.
I think it has something with licenses or something....
But some schools can collect 700-1200 usd in a "bottle collection day" around some neighborhoods, it keeps the streets clean and helps recycle those bottles that would most likely just end bu being thrown away in the trash if it wasn't for that $0.2-0.3 per bottle
it's more of a 10:1 return policy and it works.
We are working on implementing that same system, but in agricultural regions in developing countries like Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
people are more likely to recycle if they know they can get something back for it, and it would help poor people (especially children) a mean of extra income, in hopes of swaying them away from a life of crime.... that's the hope, the reality is probably it's going to get fucked by some politician :)
Nice setup. My glass crushers and screener got badly damaged during a truck wreck recently, so I'm looking for newer equipment now. I was just varying my speed to control the size output, but it makes a lot of dust at higher speeds. The glass does need to be very dry during processing
Use a cyclonic recovery system attached to a vacuum and spritz some water into the dust collection system at the jar at the end.
Nice, good work. You are defently going in the right direction. Consider colour sorting and then washing the glass maybe after the first crushing to remove food, paper and glue residues from the glass. The washing requires a drying step afterwards tho, so it might be not profitable enough. At my country (Germany) the glass can't get properly recycled if the colour contamination exceeds a certain percentage in one colour. One coloured glass can be mixed in with a new batch of glass in glass bottle production and can start a second life as beverage container.
Interesting. I had always just assumed recycled glass was melted together to make new glass instead of crushed.
I worked as a glass installer and I had the same assumption. They told me that each manufacturer of glass used a slightly different "recipe" of chemicals to make their specific types of glass. And that if you just tried to melt that down and mix it up together, it would not work because current methods (as of 2014) would not be able to get the different glasses to mix evenly. It would be patchy and those patches would be weak points that would break at the slightest thing, even temperature changes of one side being at 40F and the other being at 70F. So a 30° temperature differential could cause the glass to break from "heat stress" oddly enough.
This guy has it right though, that sand can be used in cement as an alternative to regular sand. So not as much recycle as re-purposing.
@@James-bw4np yea, I figure it would at least be useful for cement, though maybe not cost-effective if in a region that has lots of sand naturally.
@@westtex3675 I’m pretty sure that not all sand is created equal. So the sand a country has isn’t always the best for concrete
crushing it makes it way easier to deal with. it's a lot easier to move around a plant and into batching machines and furnaces when it's a powder. at my plant we can blow the powder through 4 inch pipes up to a furnace 3 stories high using air pressure. you can't do that with bottles
@@RhysShields right. river sand is the best apparently, desert sand - no good, too smooth. so you'd think living in a desert would be great, but no.
These crashing and sifting videos are highly addictive. Please post more :)
Also, please post more gold and silver ore processing.
TH-cam algorithm. You have again blessed us with your wisdom. Let us pray
Amazing, looks like beach sand without the seaweed and shells.
Yea, none of that pesky sea-smell ... only a fine odor of mixed wine, beer and expired condiments.
Glass is made from the primary ingredient (silica) in sand. Check out "natural glass" that is made when lightening strikes sand.
this is great! very straight forward and easy to follow for uninformed viewers while staying interesting, well made and fun!! rlly glad to have come across this video :D
Makes good sandblast media.
Yes it does . Leaves metal nice and white
@@magapickle01 agreed just bought a 50lb bag of crushed glass.
@@magapickle01 With a nice surface that takes paint nicely.
@@rogerbarton497 I use it to sand blast car body's when it's ground down to 70 to 110 mesh
I run a pool maintenance business in Perth Australia, and we use crushed glass as media for pool filters. The theory behind it is that the glass grains have sharper edges than the grains of sand so they can collect the dirt from the water more efficiently than the naturally occuring sand grains... but honestly I don't see much difference in perfermance between 16/30gr sand and the fine glass in performance. But hey, customers ask for it and we provide. The glass is a multigrade of some kind, if you look close you can see that it is a mix of different coloured glass. It looks much like glass and is applied the same as glass, but if you spill any while filling the filter you want to sweep it up because unlike sand, kneeling on glass pieces will do you some damage.
*Me:* About to go to bed.
*TH-cam:* Do you want to watch this guy crush glass?
*Me:* You can have the next 10 minutes of my life.
You Tube after 10 min.: But wait, there's more!!
Me too. Now I'm reading the comments instead of going to bed.
exactly my case ATM
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Even China and North Korea are in lockdown mode !! Fake ?! Yeah, Right !
Crawl back under your bridge, Troll.
Truth.
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That was really interesting!!! I knew the glass was crushed to recycle it -- but I never saw that actual process. Very very interesting!
awesome!!!!This is what our country needs to save this earth for the next generations to come.
I didn’t realize for a sec he was wearing gloves and I thought he was just sticking his hand in a big pile of broken glass
He was did you not watch the video
lol
5:30 that ain’t no glove
@@ItsMeTyScott He was talking about around the 2 minute mark, not after it was turned into sand.
Gloves with fingernail, skin, flash, blood, etc, etc
That was a very nice clear video for me and my grandson aged 3 to watch and learn about recycling - thanks!
All that energy to make one use bottles is madness
It always boggles my mind - all the processes and manufacturing that goes into container whose contents are consumed in a minute. If that same glass and manufacturing was used to make an actual drinking glass it would be used for decades.
@@Automedon2 Its unregulated capitalism , we need sustainable resource management ... a 100 years ago .
I wondered how this was done. Seems like a big time and energy saver to recycle as opposed to making glass from raw materials.
imagine how unimaginably loud that must be
So you want us to imagine something unimaginable? Are you trying to make my brain come up with a ‘does not compute message’? 🤯😆 5 ppl gave you a pass on that paradigm 😉
Norm Turner expect the unexpected lmao
To imagine the unimaginable would be an oxymoron
@@AB-wf8ek the point lol
I love the sound of breaking glass.
Taking waste material and turning it into a business. Sounds like a benefit to all of us. Hope your biz is successful.
I love how they turn down the sound of the crushing. It saves your ears.
I thought that too Kyle
Just came here as an investor.
I like what I see and I see many possible applications. Thanks for the info great video!
Glass to sand is a good idea. It'll help with the shortage of sand crises.
Yes, hopefully it will reduce the inconvenience of sand in the butt crack. Less sand on the beach will equal less sand crunching in ur hole at the beach. Can’t wait until this scourge is taken care of and the beaches are covered in glass! 😇😆
No it only creates a silent killer , guess what that microscopic glass can do to your lungs .
@@JamesSmith-ui2hv It makes lung windows so you can see into your lungs?
I work on a gravel crusher. The science behind it just amazes me. Making huge things small.
When you reached in the tiny glass shard with a bare hand, I shouted NO out loud
Same, I was like dude.
Perfectly safe!
I have no idea how or why I ended up here, but I watched the whole thing. Well done.
Love how things are made and recycled ❤️
Then you should learn how to make plastic bottles into string. It's worth it.
Stumbled upon this video, love the idea of recycling. Can't imagine why anyone would give this a thumbs down.
I agree
TH-cam does suggest good channels from time to time
this man deserves to make a fine living out of this- I hope he does
0.8mm fine :)
@@UnsaltedCashew38 - Is that your response, when the Wife says "FINE?"
You just say, "0.8 mm fine, to be exact!"
🙄😁🤭
@@robertweekley5926 Of course! Because 0.5 mm fine only works in low humidity conditions. 0.8 mm is as good as it gets :)
For the prices you bet he does.
I work at a glass shop and sometimes we’ve been using our tempered glass waste as landscaping rock which looks cool in some cases especially if you have a zero scape yard.
Gas fire pit base!!
Amazing how it starts turning back into sand almost immediately.
Why crush so fine? We fabricated the structure 5 stories high for a recycling plant in Cape town. the glass is crushed to about the size you initially do. then its sorted to 5 colours using video cameras and a glass water fall with each piece of broken glass tracked and blown onto a specific conveyor with a air jet. plus minus 200 tons per shift.
the sorted pieces ares stored in bunkers (cullet) and delivered to the appropriate furnace with massive cat front wns loaders.
the fines (by product) are low value and are sent elswhere and get used as hydroponic growing medium. filter material and other uses
Some places here use it as an abrasive medium.
Sounds like a lot of energy being used.
John Spargo ‘’
Another use is in the production of concrete in areas natural sand is expensive to produce by washing soils or because the waterways are protected for endangered species. Also, polished cement floors like in schools or government buildings (in the US) use glass to give high sheen and durability.
Glass recycling is fantastic. I get really po'd when people throw away glass
Nice getting rid of glass in a safe manner
this man really lowered the volume on the part we all wanted to hear
You wanted to hear* lol
Yes maybe. A short idea of noise volumes
I was glad he did because it would have blown out my speakers.
Tis a terrible racket I filmed our hammer mill doing aluminium.
*BRAVO!* Thanks for the Info, i'll see who i can recognize there's *No Excuse for NOT Recycling Glass.*
When it’s 4am and you drop a glass on the ground. 1:11
Appreciate the effort to share this to the world even though I don't think that I'll have much use of the information that I got from this video. It is still a nice thing to watch.
apply the same tech to circut boards. and beer cans.
Hey government, invest more of our taxes in stuff like this. I got lots of waste glass and no local recycling, even if it needs a bit of assistance lets grow this market.
will do
No local recycling? 😱 How in earth is that possible in 2020? We recycle glass since the 80's.
Glass recycling isnt economical. Did you see the wear on the hammers? And think about all the energy it takes to run this system
@@garrettholland664 we need to find a way to make it economical. It's better for the earth, we just need to find a way to make it better for our wallets as well.
Glass seems to be a stable product. Other than taking up space, what environmental concerns are there for glass in a landfill?
Low key want a mini-version of this for at home, that sand looks useful for a few things...
The system you have is pretty workable for anything I would be using, seeing as I would only be using it either as concrete infill, or to make sodium silicate for reinforcing concrete.
If you compare the cost of the two. I have a hunch crushed sand as a waste of rock quarry, or sand from the river would be much cheaper.
Broken bottles are more valuable to glass bottle maker.
@@ramonching7772 Yes, but you have to bear in mind that glass bottle manufacturers need to have a certain fraction - too fine and it cannot be used.
Wow! Fascinating. Don't quite know how I fell in here, but nice video. Now, I'll be thinking of uses for the various fractions of recycled glass. Decorative & semi-structural applications come to mind. Thank you!
you know you have seen all of you tube during the covid lock down when you are watching glass recycling industry videos....
I like how realistic these videos are
great video, would love to hear uses and self-sustainability of a glass crushing operation. Whether you can finance the machines after purchase and a man or two working with them or it is more of a problem. Also where would you use the crushed glass, in industry or making new bottles possibly. Nice video all in all, like it very much
753k views. Probably 6 people in the glass recycling industry. Loving TH-cam on quarantine.
I'm fascinated by this kind of stuff, so thanks for posting! I do have a question though, since there is no apparent pre-processing done to remove the labels on those bottles, how much does paper and adhesive affect the quality of the final product? Does this need to be further removed somehow, or does it all just flash-burn off when they re-form the glass into new feedstock? EDIT: Also, why isn't it necessary to separate the various colors of glass beforehand?
Paper or small amount of organic material don't affect the final product. since it oxidize at glass melting temperature into water and carbon dioxide. the only things need to be separated are, metals, ceramics, stones and plastics.
@@isurumaddumage1922 Interesting, thanks!
Ahh sand to glass and glass back to sand so awesome.
1:38 I didn't think I'd ever see a Knapping Motion Stone Breaker used to smash glass!
Crushing glass sounds nice and musical. Also I think it was used as a sound effect for computers in 1980s tech movies.
Boop-beep-beep!
"Why are you here?"
I do as the recommendation guides.
SAME AS YOU WE ARE HERE BECAUSE WE ARE HERE.
Reminds me of the mother-in-outlaw. I call her Window. Easy to see thru, hard to shut and strictly a pane.
Great video! How the labels on the bottles separated? I would like to know more about setting up of this unit and how much is investment, capacity, maintence support etc.
You don't need to. You can just heat it above 500F and the labels should cook off into carbon.
Fantastic fines for compressed earth block...nice.
Glass and Aluminum, 100% recyclable and neither require sorting.
I work in the liquor business and it’s interesting seeing where the bottles I sell end up
Very I teresting video on the process of converting glass to fine sand. Out of curiosity, is the sand found on the beaches the same as this final recycled sand you produce? Also, it's incredible to know how sandblasting at very high PSI can take rust out of metal objects. I saw this firsthand at a company a friend of mine used to work at.
Very interesting ..I watch you thru Dan Hurd and tied into this vid after watching a vid outta New Orleans on recycling glass .The vid said there is an increasing demand for a coarser aggregate . And on a related note the same idea an uses in NEW HAMPSHIRE for road base. Because the glass doesnt absorb water it does nt freeze as a base for roads so cracking etc is highly reduced
awesome thinking, but where did all the plastic go
It would normally be blown of off the conveyor by air blasts.
Awesome thanks Rafe👍
Outer space, i heard its going to Uranus . Lol
Looks like you need to spray the metal filters with ballistol or similar rust inhibitor between usages. Would extend lifespan.
Plastic bottle: where are we going guys
Glass bottle: it’s ok kid, the time has come
I have used this recycled glass to lay block paving on in England it stinks a bit with it being mainly beer bottles and you have to keep it damp while compacting with a Vibrating plate but it doesn't move after you've laid the blocks
Plus it's much cheaper than River/Concreting sand
5:18 shows how they remove the air from glass
fr what the hell was that about
Thank God ! I was SO worried world would run out if sand !!!
The magnetic steel remover would be way more efficient if it were a stage, where the material is running on the actual belt, not the belt running over the material.
Less magnetic force needed, more material removed. However probably 2 stages needed because of glass contamination after the first stage.
At least that is how the local crushing line here is set up.
This is really cool. Its a pretty simple process to boot.
Love your work guys... I was curious if a wet shaker table would help sift small plastic and paper from the end product?
I have thought long and hard on ways to recycle glass safely. Your system works, but the dust is extremely hazardous.
I think a trommel style ball mill would work best, using water to prevent dust from escaping to harm the area, then having it feeding a shaker table to remove or wash the end product.
Plastic and paper would wash out easily (possibly has a resale value), fine silica glass would run through (definite resale value), and metals would be recovered in particle sizes. Fewer moving parts and cleaner end materials?
Introduce water to the process
Cool. I love this shit. Must have been a scrapper/recycler in my last life.
Good job of making recycling a thing that get's more and more common!
Though I had a few things I thought while I was watching:
Ah look recycling catches on more and more even though it's still something that has to be done by the recycling guerillias...
And then yy soul starts to bleed a lilttle when I see all the colours mixed together like that for the recycling process, might be because I'm German and have two collection places for recycling glass within 700m of my front door and they sort by no colour, green and brown/mixed/other colours glass. And then there was a plastic coke bottle in there, the HORROR!
No honestly, over here you pay a 25€ct deposit at the store you get back when you return the bottles usually in form of a value coupon that subtracts the money from your total, only carbonated drinks though, that is basically BS in and on itself, it should also apply for juice etc. !
As for metall parts I usually add my lids to the plastic back since it's easier to sort that stuff for metall nonmetall and it's allowed in there, just make sure to pull an aluminum lid completely off the plastic container (yoghourt, etc.), otherwise we sort by paper, plastic, biodegradable residual waste, hazardous waste has to be brought to a collection site and 1-2 a year you can request old furniture etc. to be collected from the city waste management, or there are specific dates for a bigger collection efford.
Now I need to mention that there are still many people in Germany that don't follow these rules and guidelines, I don't happen to sort biodegradables, I don't produce enough of that stuff, but other people don't sort at all! This can lead to getting rather hefty fines for a specialised sorting, if it can be pin pointed who's responsible that person has to pay for it on their own, otherwise these costs get divided for the whole house/all people renting there. Thus I consider people who throw everyting into one trash can and even go so far to contaminate somewhat sorted ones to be dickheads, at least where a mostly effective recycling system exists.
All those things exist in the US as well :)
At least you have a system to collect the waste in a sorted way. In my opinion a collection system is the most important part to build a value chain to produce raw materials with a good quality, people are a variable that we can't control completely, the only solution for this point is education actions and try to build a society with good level of environmental education.
Anyway, it's good to know that exists good systems of collection around the world and exists a lot of people as you that follow the rules and contribute to this system. I would like to have the same in Brazil, but is a distant scenario.
I feel like I would run this machine for free just for the oddly satisfying feeling I get watching the bottles get crushed down.
Would like to see how easy it melts into glass rods.
Probably very easy since it already is glass. Similar to recycling aluminium, much less energy needed to remelt it than the oxide it's made from.
@@SnorrioK Takes about 1300 deg.f, which is about the same for steel so you need to have a special set up.
as far as i understand it mixing glass of different types like that will result in really awful rods, and glass in general. it would be very brittle if you could get anything, and beyond that it would crack if you tried to treat it after.
Looks like an excellent aggregate for concrete production.
Would A powdery glass like that be dusty and dangerous to breath in? I would almost think you would need A respirator being around it.
Glass dust is extremely bad for the lungs - very abrasive.
not powder- sand
@@wsl3666 I appreciate that, but any crushing process also produces quantities of tiny particles as well as the desired grit/sand. If this set-up were indoors I'd definitely be wearing some good respiratory gear. I used to work in very high silica sand stone and the dust - much finer than the particle size of the stone itself - permeates everything. Even wet processes, unless they are very thoroughly set up, allow quite a high spread of dust.
mesothelioma
Yeah any abrasive substance is bad for your lungs.
The decibels from that machine must be insane in person. 🤪
This video helps so much with my tinnitus, could you make a high quality sound or ASMR version with just the glass crushing so I can sleep at night again??
Years ago I had a summer job working at a recycling center. Most of my time was spent on the glass line separating the colors (clear, brown, green, other) for separate processing. In the video it was all colors at once. Is that standard practice now? Just for demonstration?
since his just making sand it doenst seem to matter.But if he was selling glass bottles to someone to grind into new glass.Its probably like most things clear glass can be make into green or brown.but its harder i would assume to make brown glass or green into clear glass.
Genuine question, why does the glass need to be sorted?
Joseph Cote thank you.
Glass, the ultimate recycling item. It’s about time we got rid of plastics, and went back to glass.
I feel every municipality should have one of these. If every municipality stepped up and got into recycling glass into sand, it could then be recycled into concrete for sidewalks and such.