Recycled crushed glass in aggregate

The use of recycled glass in aggregate is an excellent initiative to promote sustainable practices. Despite some minor difficulties with stockpiling and crushing, the product is a feasible replacement to virgin aggregate at the current specification levels. To date the insitu performance of pavements of moderate traffic volumes where recycled glass basecourse has been used is identical to the performance of similar pavements where 100% virgin aggregate has been used. The environmental preference of reducing carbon emissions resulting from transporting the glass long distances is clear. However, it is the extension of the life of both landfills and quarries that really make this sustainability initiative worthy of raising recycling glass. It has great significance to recycle glass, it not only save raw materials and energy, and save landfill space, but also lower the environmental pollution and provide huge volume of useful materials for many applications.glass crushing equipment