At 7:46 PM -0400 10/13/98, Michael P. Edison wrote:
>But on a more serious note, waste glass recycling is a big problem,
>apparently, and we have seen work being done to incorporate it into
>concrete as a filler. Bond strength is one limitation, reduction of
>concrete performance properties is also apparently a problem if loadings
>get too high. We are finding some interesting uses, however.
>
>Mike E.

while in grad school I worked for a guy in the engineering school who had a
grant to study exactly this problem.  I ran into him last winter, and he
apparently has had some success, at least enought to take out (or start
to?) a patent on the process.  He's since left the Engineering school, and
is now set up in Red Hook, Brooklyn.  e-mail me off list if you'd like more
info (such as I can give it).

denny

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