Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "How Sand Made From Crushed Glass Rebuilds Louisiana’s Shrinking Coast | World Wide Waste" video.

  1. so do they HAVE plans to make sand for concrete? it seems to me like you could make very high quality sand from glass for that application, since you could make it exactly as angular and as course as needed, and the grains themselves are certainly strong enough. putting glass in landfills is absurd, it's very economical to recycle.
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  2. Marion Stinnett glass IS economical to recycle when it's already collected seperately. it saves substantial amounts of energy to reuse or remelt it as opposed to making new glass. here in germany, we don't put glass in the general trash, and if we did, it still wouldn't end up in a landfill because most of the EU banned household trash from landfills in the last 10-20 years. some glass bottles here (mostly soda and beer) use a deposit system and any seller is required to take back the empty bottles and pay back the deposit (normally collected by machine). deposit glass bottles are normally refilled several times. some other bottles (wine) and jars have no deposit, and those are collected in big cotainers in the streets that always come in pairs to properly racially segregate the glass as white and coloured. I think they at least use the white glass to make new glass (probably coloured to absorb some contamination), but I know that bottle glass also gets used to produce stuff like glass wool insulation.
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  3. joshua irwin river sand suitable for concrete is becoming scarcer, is often very destructively collected, and should be more regulated. specifically my idea is that glass granules might be suitable as a glass replacement specifically for high-strength specialty concrete (for skyscrapers and such) because the grains can be produced more angular than any natural sand (thus creating a more interlocking structure in the concrete), and grain size could be controlled very well. I could be wrong though, perhaps glass is slightly less tough or adheres worse to hardening cement than quartz. I'm pretty sure that I have heard of glass grains being actually used in concrete, but I don't know how well that compares with sand in reality. I imagine that if it does make superior high-strength concrete, it could be economical, but either way it would be nice to choose making concrete from glass over filling landfills with glass while dredging river beds for sand.
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  4. joshua irwin obviously crushing glass could be done much more efficiently on a big scale with dedicated machines.
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  5. Marion Stinnett what the people in the video are doing is the most subsidized waste management ever.
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