What *REALLY* happens to 'Recycled' Glass?! – (you might be surprised)
What *REALLY* happens to 'Recycled' Glass?! – (you might be surprised)
What really happens to Recycled Glass? Can Glass be recycled? How do I recycle glass? Today we answer all of these questions and more while supporting Team Seas. Join Team JerryRigEverything here: https://teamseas.org/search-donors/?team_name=JerryRigEverything
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When making glass from raw materials there’s a limit as to how much ”cullet” (recycled glass) can be included in the mix, especially when the market (the people who eat / drink out of glass receptacles) demand clear, colourless glass.
Except for these acids
Hydrofluoric Acid HF
Fluoroantimonic Acid (superacid) H2FSbF6
Antimony Pentafluoride SbF5
Fluorosulfuric Acid HSO3F
Fluoroboric Acid HBF4
I helped my grandpa weigh bags of potatoes, tomatoes,candle the eggs, load up the step van which was a stainless steel cooler or chest type,he had customers in the city & I rode along. Can’t imagine doing it today
The video is one company’s propaganda to promote its product (fiberglass). It undersells safety to its workers and the community. However, they must be given some credit for contributing to recycling. What other products can be produced from recycled glass are yet unknown and unseen.
Anything can be recycled when the citizenry and governments add value to it. That is Money! In other words, anything that’s not worth recycling is because a cohort of people doesn’t want it (influential people, industries, or governments).
Let’s stop fooling ourselves. Many people don’t want to save the planet. There is much power, money, and control in perpetuating the waste-management "crisis" in many parts of the world. Instead of recycling the known reusable, many countries recycle the waste problems with pseudo-policies and manufactured ignorance. Recycling and waste management are manageable problems. We’re in this predicament because we lack the will! I can say more, but later…
This is not done with wind energy that is a lie. OC uses energy from the local grid most of witch in utah is made from burning coal.
Can’t say I’d want to be breathing that dust.
I’d like to see/hear you putting the blame where it belongs for the vast, vast majority of the trash in the oceans where it belongs instead of letting them off the hook and begging Americans/Westerners to fund the clean-up!
"Infinitely recyclable" is the only needed reason for all plastic food containers to be switched to glass. Plastic can only be downgraded until it’s no longer useable for recycling.
Nothing in this world can be recycled without using energies and causing pollution. So recycling is just illusion or narrative not actually. We need to learn to limit ourselvs.
They say the Owen’s plant is 100% powered by wind. I’m sure this isn’t true. On a calm day do they shut down? I doubt it. They probably on net use 100% wind power, I’d believe that. But to say it runs only on wind power is nonsense.
Wear a mask dude, safety’s first
So the dude banging on about recycling, is restoring a Humvee, interesting take.
Excellent video! But I am curious about the haze in the air and dust on his clothing in the first factory. Being glass powder doesn’t it have the potential to do damage to the lungs ??? It’s still tiny fragments of glass, could it cut up the lungs on a micro level?
My grandfather was a glass-blower – the old fashioned way – in Connecticut
You are nuts to be in there? So many airborne glass particles in the air in there? You just knocked 40 years of your life.
Okay. Now do plastic. And then do EV batteries and solar panels
We don’t burn coal to melt the glass we use electricity.
Cool…where’s the electricity come from. The power plant which either burns coal or oil. Lmao
Btw you could turn the glass sounds down…
So you are against recycling? Loser!
Where does all the trash collected from the ocean go?
Most of our trash does not get recycled, don’t get your hopes up with this video
9:42 really? glass fiber bio soluble? safe to touch? big doubts about it
We should replace plastic with glass containers, nobody wants the plastic for recycling. And glass can’t poison the ocean.
plastic to fuel
Great video using human language to explain the process.
Moment to appreciate the fun captions for the glass sounds in this video. Thanks for the laughs
In Western Australia, all bottles that are sent for recycling, are crushed, mixed with gravel and used for road base. It is too labor intensive to sort colored glass.
This is the sort of technology the green efforts should focus on instead of climate fear mongering. Trash control and recycling is something that everyone would more readily support without controversy.
So if glass if infinity recyclable, is it correct to assume fiberglass products, such as insulation can also be recycled? I’d love to see a video on how that’s fine and it’s uses…more insulation, etc.
I dont understand antyhing now🤔 but i like what i just did see!
The tech at each stage is amazing. I had no idea any of these machines existed and it’s awesome that they do
Glass turned to sand?
Re-use, not recycle
Most plastic recycling is a scam.
Awesome video!
That glass is inert is not entirely true! There are certain chemicals you have to store in plastic containers because they will eat through the glass!
The neat thing about using glass for insulation and other applications is that the color of the input product doesn’t really matter much. The colored glass is undesirable for new glass bottles because it doesn’t take much pigment to destroy the clarity of a batch of glass. So it has to be sorted out.
A million years? I find that hard to believe.
Too bad they aren’t cleaning and reusing more of the bottles like beer bottles.
mass bro nee
I’m pretty sure your lungs are covered in glass
Glad to see that you are breathing in all that fine silica. Might want to check your lungs
Interesting video. This is why is very important to recycle
love how it went to cell phone screen his voice changes, I would not be surprised if he’s the first cyborg love You’re videos Sir ♥️💙🍀🇨🇦 😅
100% renewable windmill energy… that was a total BS line, there is a proclivity now for everyone to pretend that electricity comes from windmills and solar cells…no
They used to just collect bottles and sanitize them before reuse. How is it more energy efficient and time effective to pulverize the glass into dust and then remake the bottles?
More reason to make corporations use more glass and less plastic.
its crazy how sand can become fluffy…
Towns need to make it easier to get glad recycled
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