Ground Glass Traditional Cache
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Short walk from paved road and an even shorter walk from the sand road. You are looking for a recycled product. No thorns or briars. BYOP FTF for D.H.JerseyGeo's
It seems that while we still have much waste going into landfills, scientists and engineers are making good use of some items with successful recycling. Waste glass has many uses. Used as an additive in clay, glass lowers the processing temperature and therefore, lowers the costs for producing tiles and bricks. The glass chemically bonds with the clay and makes the product stronger.
Used as an additive in plastic, finely ground glass readily replaces the calcium carbonate filler already in use. The glass filler increases the strength and ductility of most plastics tested. When the ground glass was mixed with a ceramic it was inexpensively processed to form finished parts that don't require machining. The glass/ceramic composite material was twice as hard as regular glass. Ground glass was used as an abrasive for water jet cutting. In most applications it performed as well as the garnet normally used. The cost of the garnet is approximately $800 ton. The glass abrasive was produced from waste glass at approximately $10 ton.
In sandblasting operations, ground glass, an amorphous silica, can safely replace silica sand, a crystalline silica, and a known carcinogen. There are many uses for ground waste glass, many applications can be found in the local community.
Now we have created a new use for another style of ground glass. Go find this cache, and you will see what we have done.
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