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What are the ways to recycle glass bottles?

1. Prototype reuse
Prototype reuse means that after recycling, glass bottles are still used as packaging containers, which can be divided into two forms: the same packaging utilization and the replacement packaging utilization. The prototype reuse of glass bottle packaging is mainly for commodity packaging with low value and a large amount of use. Such as beer bottles, soda bottles, soy sauce bottles, vinegar bottles and some canned bottles, etc. The prototype reuse method saves the cost of quartz raw materials and avoids the generation of a large amount of waste gas when manufacturing new bottles. It is worth promoting. The disadvantage is that It consumes a lot of water and energy, and the cost must be included in the cost budget when using this method.

2. Reuse of raw materials
Reuse of raw materials refers to the utilization of various glass bottle packaging wastes that cannot be reused as raw materials for the manufacture of various glass products. The glass products here are not only glass packaging products, but also other building materials and daily-use glass products. Product waste. Adding cullet in moderation helps glass manufacture because cullet can be melted at lower humidity than other raw materials. So less heat is required to recycle glass bottles and furnace wear is less Can be reduced. Tests show that the use of recycled secondary materials can save 38% of energy, 50% of air pollution, 20% of water pollution and 90% of waste than using raw materials to make glass products. Due to the loss of glass renewal process It is very small and can be recycled repeatedly. Its economic and natural benefits are very significant.

3. Rebuild
Recycling refers to the use of recycled glass bottles for the remanufacturing of similar or similar packaging bottles, which is essentially a recycling of semi-finished raw materials for glass bottle manufacturing. The specific operation is to recycle the recycled glass bottles , first carry out preliminary cleaning, cleaning, sorting by color and other pretreatment; then, return to the furnace for melting, which is the same as the original manufacturing process, and will not be described in detail here; Various glass packaging bottles.

Recycling furnace renewal is a recycling method suitable for various glass bottles that are difficult to reuse or cannot be reused (such as broken glass bottles). This method consumes more energy than the prototype reuse method.

Among the above three recycling methods, the prototype reuse method is more ideal, which is an energy-saving and economical recycling method.


Post time: Feb-07-2022