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@ShirleeDanielel
April 18, 2025 at 11:06 am
Being an adult means getting excited about new kitchen gadgets instead of new shoes🔥
@callydecherd
April 18, 2025 at 11:07 am
I love this woman so much!! The work they’re doing is incredible
@q12hh15T4Vuuuu-z
April 18, 2025 at 11:11 am
As always, your content is top notch. Keep surprising us with your interesting ideas!🐘👿❤️
@laurawhite8563
April 18, 2025 at 11:12 am
Yay!!
@ai_battle
April 18, 2025 at 11:13 am
no they can’t
@lanetimepditty
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 am
Bold outfit
@hellochriis
April 18, 2025 at 11:29 am
So, if the machines already exist, why is glass to sand recycling not a thing yet? Is it maybe cheaper to melt and reuse the glass?
@teraless5741
April 18, 2025 at 5:54 pm
First, glasses usually melt at 1400-1600°c(2500-2900°f)production grade glass furnace starts around $14,000, at 45kg(~100lbs) capacity per melt(how long depends on fuels, and this doesn’t include cost of operation, fuels, electricity). Compare that to, starter glass pulverizer at $28000, capacity at 680kg(1500lb) capacity per hour, needing only electricity and minimum supervision. And not to mention the other machines needed to process the glasses into products, including a mill for pre-melting and glass blowing/pressing machine.
Secondly, glasses aren’t in high demand as much as sand. Sand can be used from construction work to source for mineral like quarts and silicon. And like this video, environmental landfill. Not to mention that the consumers and businesses that use the product probably won’t choose glasses that picked from used and trashed glasses. Glasses also have many grades and types and uses varies from a product from another. Suggesting that you can just melt glasses in general and reuse them are just unrealistic.
Third, if you say just sort the glasses, having to source takes so much more human resources to do than just one large vehicle operator dumping bunch of glasses into pulverizer. Not to mention the skilled workers that needed to tends the heavy and dangerous machineries and glass furnace that can burn up to 1600°c(2900°f) on a regular basis(assuming to melt raw material). It’s just less expensive and stressful to run the operation. Plus, less high quality workers needed to pay, more profits.
Fourth, sand are finite resources and is one of the fastest depleting material right now. So while glass manufacturing companies might be more profitable, their company is in demand and in completely different target consumers. And while other sand producers are digging up beaches that’s rising due to global warming, the recycling companies just have to pulverize some glasses.
Hope this helps, there probably are more reasons, but I’m just a guy with internet access and basic logical reasoning.
@kopkaljdsao
April 21, 2025 at 9:34 am
She said sand was used in coastal renovation. If regular sand is cheaper, green charities are the only economic model that works.
@Laterprater
April 18, 2025 at 12:40 pm
Wow, the US finally found out you can recycle glass. that is so amazing we have been doing it for over 40-50 years now. Never forget the US is the bestest nation in the world..!!!
@KLUTCHCONDUCT
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 pm
🥲
@Elmanz92
April 18, 2025 at 6:02 pm
Trump is your president! Climate is destroyed! Nothing you do to help climate matters as long as he has full control!
@Kalia51
April 18, 2025 at 8:07 pm
What a special human!!!!
@brainfreshtoday
April 18, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Way to go!!!
@gmuhammed57
April 19, 2025 at 4:34 am
Key takeaway: in any stage of youe life, start even if you don’t have all the answers.
@jamesclarke8224
April 19, 2025 at 5:10 am
This is great! Amazing work and what an inspiration 👏👏 we need more engineers like this. People who solve real life problems, with effective, scalable, & often simple solutions. Great work once again 💚✌️
@Saunterisland
April 19, 2025 at 10:07 am
Now, the next step is to replace glass again with plastic and promote this type of process.
@loveyvo
April 19, 2025 at 6:18 pm
That’s awesome!
@katiekat4457
April 20, 2025 at 1:35 am
Excellent!!! I love people like that. Now let’s switch back to from the connivence of light weighed plastic and back to glass. It’s been decades and their just isn’t any kind of recycling of plastic that works well. Mostly it doesn’t work at all. We just pay poor countries to accept cargo ships worth of plastic and trash and use their country as landfills instead of our own. At least that’s what American does. True story.
What’s disappointing is before Coca-Cola switched from glass bottles to plastic, they researched the costs, effectiveness, environmental impact, and other data. What Coca-Cola found in their research was that while there would be a negative impact on the environment and that actually switching to plastic would be more expensive for the company, they still decided to switch to plastic for it’s easy and convenience.
With that said, it only makes sense that all the other big beverage makers would also came up with the same conclusion as Coca-Cola whether they had done their own research or based their decisions on Coca-Cola’s research. Idk if other companies had access to Coca-Cola’s research or not. Perhaps they were just following their example.
Either way, it is ridiculous that humans spend almost all of lives just taking the environment for granted and as a collective people of Earth, we fail to think in unison in order to stop the people who just don’t care about important things.
Some countries’s culture’s decisions and things cared about are much better than others which proves that it’s all about how people are nurtured while being raised within a culture.
Of course, you can’t prevent some bad seeds along the way but if you are born and raised among a strong, good decision making culture, those bad seeds can be squashed down by the group who will not tolerate bad actions. They will be prevented and removed from society one way or the other because of the strong united bonds and like-minded thinking that some countries are fortunate to live amongst.