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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by tuatoru on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:35AM (#24715845)
Recycled glass can be mixed with virgin stone chip to make asphaltic concrete.

(Which of course uses fossil fuels for the bitumen; possibly even more than the equivalent mass of Portland cement concrete.)

I'm not aware of any other significant uses for recycled glass.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by xenadu02 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:12AM (#24716064)
Nearly all glassmaking involves adding all the glass bits you cut off or broke back into the kiln. Almost no glass is actually 100% virgin glass. So glass is absolutely recyclable.

The only caveat is colored glass can only really be used to make the same color glass (at least economically).

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by tuatoru on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:23AM (#24716110)
I should have said, post-consumer glass.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by jbay808 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:55AM (#24715974)
House coatings?

https://scoutmagazine.ca/2017/02/07/you-should-know-about-th...

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