Glass Fines: A review of cleaning and up-cycling possibilities

Globally, glass is now a common choice for packaging products that are distributed to market. In Australia, over 1.3 million tons of packaging glass is consumed per annum. Each year only around 40% of the used glass in this pool is recovered nationally via a complex system of collection, sorting and re-processing. Thus there is a significant opportunity to recover this waste stream further. Throughout the glass recovery process, glass packaging...