09/09/2020
When we change the insulation of our buildings in Europe, we throw 86% of the glass in the landfill, or at best we turn it into aggregate products; this is absurd because recycling should be the norm!
This is indicated by the paper by Rebecca Hartwell and Dr Mauro Overend of the University of Cambridge (UK). It would be interesting for manufacturers to take up this subject. This is why we would like to know the opinion of Jérôme Lionet, President of Glass for Europe, an association which brings together the main glass manufacturers on our continent.
Rebecca Hartwell and Dr Mauro Overend from the University of Cambridge (UK) published a comprehensive paper on the reuse of glass from building facades which was posted on the specialist site Glassonweb.com. This paper presents the methodology, the evaluation of the results and the potential environ...