Do you know that a glass bottle would take 4000 years or even longer to decompose if it is in the landfill? There are different glass products like glass bottles, window glass, tempered glass, glass jars, etc., but they cannot be put together to recycle. Window glass and tempered glass cannot be melted normally in most ordinary glass melting furnaces, as they may cause quality problems to new glass products.

Glass bottles and jars can be 100% recycled and reutilized endlessly without any loss in purity or quality. However, if you want to make recycled glass sand only, there is no limit on bottle colors. You can mix and crush them together.

2. How to recycle glass bottles to earn more money?

Two ways to make money from glass recycling. One is crushing glass to sand by glass crusher to produce cheaper aggregate substitution. The other is selling glass bottles and jars to the recycling plants for making new glass products. If you only have bottles and do not have a glass recycling plant, the first choice is more profitable and easy to get recycled sand.

2.1 Process for making recycled glass sand

Making recycled glass sand is much easier than the second way and everyone can make it. There are many crushers to process glass bottles like jaw crushers, impact crushers, etc, but hammer crushers can ideally turn bottles into recycled glass sand.

Why hammer crusher is the best machine to make recycled glass sand?

The breaker plate of the hammer mill is a continuously moving belt of manganese steel links. Used glass product is fed to the hammer points and then discharge from the grates. Enormous crushing power can produce uniform high quality of the product without the necessity of using several units to obtain the necessary production.

Hammer crusher is small and inexpensive, especially suits for crushing glass bottles and jars at home. It is easy to install and operate. You can crush all your bottles no matter what colors they are.

(1) Why is recycled glass sand one of the best aggregates?

a. Cheaper than stone aggregates, but performs well in the same applications.

b. Can save natural aggregates like natural sand.

c. No harm to the environment.

d. Gives greater coverage per tonne as it has lower bulk density than sharp sand

e. Can be used in poor weather conditions

(2) Wide applications of recycled glass sand

Civil Construction(3-5mm Coarse Sand), Concrete and Asphalt (<2mm), Asphalt, Concrete, Sand Blasting, Media, Soil Enhancement, Glass Innovation.

2.2 How to make new bottles from used glass bottles?

1) Color sorting: Amber glass is used to make new bottles. Automatically selecting machine looks for browns or amber glass and fires a strong puff of air to separate it from the rest glass.

2) Cleaning: Contaminants for instance metals, bags, cans, and non-ferrous aluminum ceramic need to be taken out manually.

3) Crushing: Gass is fed into a crusher to break into small pieces.

4) label removing: Then it enters a dryer.

5) Manually remove non-glass items like bags, boxes, and cans.

6) Calcining the crushed glass at 2700 degrees.

7) Reshaping the liquid glass to make new bottles.

3. Which way and which glass crusher suits you?

No matter which way you choose, they are both profitable. If you have a glass recycling plant, you can choose to produce new glass bottles. If you are an aggregate supplier or want to crush glass bottles at home, a hammer crusher would be your best choice.