On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:55:01 -0000 (UTC), news18
wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:48:58 -0700, Tom Kunich wrote:


Here I believe that the recyclables go through a crusher so that the
glass is fractured and falls through the bottom of the screen-like
conveyer belt from which the paper is sorted from the plastic. Among
these items are the needles and other disease carrying waste. This
sorting is extremely difficult to automate in order to reduce the cost
of recycling.

And it would result in the lowest qualty glass crud as there would be all
sorts of glass; clean, coloured/colored, lead contaminated and piles of
plastic. Useful for weak concrete at best.

Here (Thailand) glass bottles are readily salable to "garbage
collectors" (who would probably be identified as "recycles" in other
places) who in turn sell them in two places - one to those who can use
reclaimed bottles to package their goods, those that sell paint
thinner in small lots for example, and the remainder to folks who melt
them for use in making new bottles, and similar to reclaimed paper
they probably can't be used to make colorless bottles.
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Cheers,

John B.