Activists of «Ecodesanta» visited the first glass processing point in Kuzbass

Participants of the environmental movement at the Kemerovo enterprise for the collection and processing of glass and waste paper Steklyashkin inspected a glass crushing unit with a technical capacity of up to 30 tons per month.

The reception point in Kemerovo was organized in August 2018. Also special garbage containers are installed near the apartment buildings of the regional center. After collecting the waste, the glass is separated from plastic and iron elements, crushed, packaged in industrial bags of 1 ton and shipped to remelting.

Participants of the Ecodessanter noticed that in the first 15 minutes of the work of the point from the beginning of the day, three citizens brought glass for delivery. Mainly they bring glass containers (bottles, broken cans, cups), also broken mirrors and car glasses. Dmitry Tarkhanov, the organizer of the glass recycling center, notes that citizens are satisfied with the participation in solving the problem of recycling waste and that you can get money for glass and waste paper.

Recycled glass as a raw material is used in the production of new glass containers, foam glass, glass wool and fiberglass, glass concrete, decorative tiles, smalt, liquid glass, glass asphalt, and others.

At present, about 5 tons of glass per month are processed at the Steklyashkin reception center. The increase in capacity depends on the increase in the amount of product received for disposal.

As the Ecodesan participant noted, Maxim Kuznetsov, head of the environmental information department of the Regional Committee for Natural Resources of the Kemerovo Region, glass is a fifth hazard class, that is, it is almost not dangerous, but does not decompose completely in the soil. Recycling will help reduce the release of environmental pollutants in the manufacture of glass products and save tons of quartz sand and limestone.

Source: https://glasnarod.ru