15 April 1999: The Flat Glass Manufacturers Association of Japan is to scale up its approach to establishing technology for recycling automotive glass as flat glass.
The success of small-scale tests …
15 April 1999: The Flat Glass Manufacturers Association of Japan is to scale up its approach to establishing technology for recycling automotive glass as flat glass. The success of small-scale tests in fiscal 1998 ranging from 200 kg to 3 tons of waste glass prompted plans in fiscal 1999 to expand the scale of testing to several tens of tons. For full-blown recycling to take hold, however, the association said that establishing the means for bearing costs, and building collection routes are among the social environmental improvements needed. In repeated tests restricted to waste glass from the front and sides of cars, the association found that as long as waste glass fulfills quality requirements blending it in a concentration of 20-30% with flat glass materials was permissible. The recycling of automotive glass faces special technical hurdles owing to the adhesion to the glass of metal and plastic, which lowers the quality of the recycled product.