MAKING HOLLOW BLOCKS FROM CRUSHED GLASS BOTTLES

MAKING HOLLOW BLOCKS FROM CRUSHED GLASS BOTTLES “From sand to sand” could be another version of “from dust to dust”. No, I am not talking about life after death, but the parallelism could be true if we could make new products from crushed glass bottles, including hollow blocks for building homes. That is so because glass bottles are essentially made from sand, and if these are crushed into small grains, these could become sand again, or something that looks like sand. Before globalization came along, it was very easy to recycle glass bottles, because most of the two-way glass bottles were made by the local manufacturers who needed to buy these back. When globalization happened, all kinds of glass bottles of all sizes entered the market, and the importers of these one-way containers had no need to buy them back. In the old days, used glass bottles were bought by the piece by the junk shops, but they can’t do that too much now, because most of the bottles are one-way. To solve that problem, I now propose that we should pass a law requiring the junk shops to buy used bottles by the kilo. I am sure that law will not be a burden for them, because they will make money from that. Buying back by the kilo may be a new idea, but crushing used glass bottles to turn them back to sand is not a new idea, as it is already being done in many other countries. One objection to this idea could be the electricity cost, but I think the power costs could be recovered through the sale of the finished products, including the new homes. IKE SENERES/03-13-24