GLASS RECYCLING IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

📄 Project Abstract

Glass is a recyclable material, and in a country of about 120 million people with increasing urbanization, industrialization and standards of living, it is necessary that resources are continuously sourced and managed for sustainable development. In Nigeria today, the populace are yet to be aware of waste glass recycling let alone making sure that the waste glass they generate should be contaminate free, therefore most glass wastes that would be collected from neibourhoods would be expected to be contaminated and such material even though cannot be used for making containers, they can be directed to lower valued uses, such as road aggregate or glassphalt. There are different processes for the utilization of cullets for manufacture of new glass. These processes include remelting and sintering. cullets can be used as crushed to be remelted in pots or furnaces for use to make new products or sintered which involves the use of powders. This study sought to convert the glass waste of Light ...