Information about Recycling Fiberglass - Fiberglass a Burden on Our Environment
Yes, fiberglass is recyclable. Unfortunately though, over the 8 decades that it has been in existence, only one company has been able to develop a way to recycle it successfully. What is more problematic is the fact that these recycling services aren’t available on a large scale, which means that the bulk of fiberglass ends up as toxic waste. This small, fragmented fiberglass recycling market also faces the problem of offering very little in terms of returns, as the price for the recycled product is too low to justify the process.
This makes fiberglass a burden on our environment. We’ll look at why fiberglass is bad for the environment, but let’s first explore what fiberglass even is.
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Thx for providing info on what can be done with recycled fiberglass. #onemillionboater pledge
Seems like the grinding might be the most mechanical, and (with gravity separation like with copper from incpsulation in chopped-up wires) would at least result in far less volume of the two main products. The "minerals" including glass and other ingredients could be smelted by a client, and the polymers broken down in a bioreactor?
Very informative and interesting.
@DynamicEarthLearning
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
The process mentioned at 3m48s is pyrolysis - not “pylorisis”!
Perfect lesson thanks!
@DynamicEarthLearning
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
This is EXACTLY why wind turbines aren't as green as people think. When the blades Crack or become so worn out from the wind they are loaded up on a train and buried in a landfill where they will essentially be stuck for millions of years because fiberglass isn't easily biodegradable. Here in Amarillo Texas we have one of the biggest wind farms in the world and last week I saw a train hauling broken blades to our landfill!
@DynamicEarthLearning
2 жыл бұрын
Wow.. that's really interesting. I'll have to read more about that. I think solar is a better way to go. However those panels create a lot of dangerous waste as well. Hard to determine what has the lowest impact while still being a good power source.
@johnlewisbrooks
2 жыл бұрын
@@DynamicEarthLearning I wonder if it's possible to milk thunderstorms?
@DynamicEarthLearning
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnlewisbrooks To collect the water? Who know what scientists will figure out
@johnlewisbrooks
2 жыл бұрын
@@DynamicEarthLearning No. I'm talking about getting electricity from clouds. That would be something! A SINGLE bolt of lightning can power the free world for 1 second!
@PURENT
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnlewisbrooks You have to wait for a thunderstorm storm, then try to catch a bolt of lightning in that storm, odds are so exceptionally tiny that the effort isn't even worth it. Kinda like trying make an income buying scratch offs. Fiberglass is also used basically everywhere as an industrial material, so complaining about wind turbines of all things is just dumb, a lot more good than harm with those. There's no financial incentive in trying to recycle fiberglass, because you can produce fresh fiberglass for cheaper. So nobody is all that interested in recycling it, off to a landfill it goes.