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Message text written by "BP - Dwell time 5 minutes."
>I like the hammer and glass technique; saw a terrazzo bar in N'Awlins (New
Orleans for you flat world folks) I proably stared at the bar too long but
it
was marble chips and blue glass from the sky vodka bottle polished in a
buff
portland..<
I like the smashed glass technique too, though it brought to mind the
challenge of scaling up to commercial quantities-- take the black-glass
vacant office building downtown and get a REALLY big hammer... well, you
get the idea.
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.
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