Glass Recycling Ideas

some of the glass recycled crafts can be found here

glass recycling ideas

some of the glass recycled crafts can be found here

Recyclable materials consist of glass, plastic, paper, metal, textile, and electronic wastes. Although similar, the composting process that generally uses biomass waste that can be degraded by nature, is not categorized as a recycling process. Recycling is more focused on garbage that can not be degraded by nature naturally for the reduction of land damage. Broadly speaking, recycling is the process of garbage collection, sorting, cleaning, and processing new materials for the production process.

Recycling on products made from glass.

One recycling business is recycling on products made from glass. Many ways are used by the craftsmen to utilize used glass as the basic material of handicraft making. One of them is an art object in the form of glass craft from glass shards. In addition to seem luxurious, its unique shape will attract consumers. This can be a lucrative business opportunity with a craft made from raw glass shards.

Materials needed are broken glass or broken bottles used, jars and anything made of glass. The raw material is cleaned from contaminant material, washed thoroughly and melted in a heating furnace with a temperature of 1,500 degrees Celsius for 24 hours. After completely melting, then the glass is formed in accordance with the wishes. Can also be used as building materials and roads. There is already Glassphalt, which is a material of road coating

using 30% recycled glass material. Another process that can also be done is glass material that has been obtained cutting and modified according to the desired design for example in the form of toys and crafts.