Recycling Glass To Sand

[@laughingachilles]

I really wish we would return to glass for most things. I'm old enough to remember milk and Coke coming in glass bottles. I did a blind taste test with friends between coke in glass bottles and coke in plastic...everyone said the glass bottle coke was better. The great thing about glass is how it is chemically inert and can be recycled into oblivion. Even if it escapes into the environment it doesn't cause issues because it's chemically inert. It just sits there until it wears down into particles and joins the sand, or it gets crushed and buried without causing any problems. Plastic is good for many things but we shouldn't be using it for storing drinks, or food in general.

[@carbonstar9091]

Glass has a couple of downsides from a transport/cleanup perspective but overall is a really great storage material. I hate that everything is plastic now. I prefer paper/metal/glass over plastic.

[@laughingachilles]

​@@carbonstar9091 I'm not some environmental nutjob who wants to end plastic, I know it has many important functions. I am just saying glass is superior in many ways and I wish we would return to using it more often. Then again I wish we would return to the days of using wax paper to wrap meat given to us by a local butcher...so I may be a little out of touch lol. The thing is I am not even 40 and yet this is how I grew up. My generation was the last to see these things in many western nations. It really makes me sad to see this.

[@carbonstar9091]

@@laughingachilles I'll admit I don't miss glass ketchup bottles.

[@snailswrath]

The upside of having glass is that we won't be full of microplastics. The downside is that transport is heavier, which means more Co2 emissions. Given that the environmentalists in power ONLY cares about co2, we better get used to the plastics.

[@kittytrail]

​@@snailswrath do your part to save the planet: more CO2 is good for it and us! 😘👌

[@albertrangel3598]

I worked at a glass recycling plant and when we received dumpsters of glass bottles . We had a system that had a magnet that pulled off ferrous and some sort of electro magnet that put non ferrous metals out the glass. Further down the line the glass was separated by the color of glass. Where it was mixed with crushed blue plate glass and turned into sand size particles and sold to Owens Corning so they could make fiberglass from it. But the the non ferrous metals removed consisted of lost jewelry like rings and necklaces. Plus lots of coins. But there was also lots of lighter materials that had to be removed too.

[@chuckster6513]

Hey Jason, I have used this stuff for years in my blast cabinet. About two years ago I was diagnosed with a small ( adenocarcinoma ) lung cancer. Endo said it could well have been due to sandblasting while not wearing at least a mask, but better a respirator. Because I still use the blast cabinet, you know I wear protection.

[@ETAisNOW]

He uses them though, that’s why his voice changed when he’s close to the dust, you can’t see him wearing it, he goes back and edits in himself talking when he was wearing it

[@garrettmillard525]

@@ETAisNOW Yeah, too bad he doesn't make that obvious, and make a point of how important it is. Can't have safety concerns hurting sales, now could we.

[@ETAisNOW]

@@garrettmillard525 If you watch his videos you know generally he makes it obvious, you see him wearing it, you can even tell when he’s using it in the short video you’re complaining about. If your perspective is that he’s trying to give a bunch of ignorant people lung cancer so he can get a few more sales then you’re being jaded and looking for something to virtue signal about.

[@garrettmillard525]

@@ETAisNOW Lmao. I am not blaming him. I am blaming the culture of willful ignorance and pseudo-machismo that leads people that use this type of equipment to get cancer while barely understanding how important a respirator is. He clearly understands how important a respirator is, he's wearing one, but brushes off the concern with "throw some misters up, or something". Because yes, he knows as well as anybody that nobody on the job site out in the sun wants to be wearing a respirator. It's not his responsibility to change the culture that kills countless hardworking folks every day. But it would be cool if he did.

[@mikelv1]

Isn’t that like super dangerous to breathe in?

[@shaun138]

Yep

[@michaelotoole1807]

need to go through a wash to remove the glass dust.

[@dionh70]

Duh. So is rock dust generated while crushing rock. Common sense tell anyone that fine particles of ANYTHING in your lungs is bad.

[@awldune]

"Glass smoke-- don't breathe this!"

[@tylerdavis9820]

Silicosis

[@greatitbroke]

We return our beer bottles in most of Canada for 10 Cents deposit. They get near 90% return here in Ontario now we can return all the liquor and wine bottles too. Its crazy not too.

[@MikeBaxterABC]

That's just alcohol and beer bottles though!

[@catgynt9148]

Ok, I missed the step where the paper and plastic labels are removed from the glass. Do they accumulate in the hammer mill to be removed from the screen periodically? Interesting recycling opportunities. Thanks Jason

[@thebestSteven]

This is what i'm curious about.

[@georgem1134]

It all gets crushed the only thing that gets kicked out is the metal caps

[@ByroManiac]

You are a complete stud. No other way to describe it. Your work ethic and dedication to your crafts is next level. I love your videos and appreciate the education you are sharing with us. Keep up the good 'hard' work. Generations to come can learn a thing or two...

[@DoSomething-]

😮

[@johnglasgow4176]

Maybe use it in a sandblaster thanks

[@markiusgalfordii9248]

Glass works really good in Is a sandblaster. So Does crush up walnut shells

[@chuckster6513]

I have used this stuff for years in my blast cabinet. I have bought it from the local lumber yard for years. No matter what medium you use, wear a mask or respirator. I had not even thought about it until I was told that my lung cancer may have easily been caused by years of sand blasting.

[@snarky_user]

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[@TammyAllen-vj5de]

Returning it to its natural form. Thinking outside the box. You truly know your business.

[@_TONY_Az]

Love the equipment you come up with

[@xyzabc4574]

A fun side project might be a "Will It Crush" series. (a take on 'will it blend?')

[@josephcormier5974]

Well done Jason thanks for sharing this with us six stars

[@neek3072]

what about the sticker labels?

[@nunyabisnass1141]

I love when he posts commercials

[@busbey61]

Todd Hoffman and people lost their contracts for TV.... I think it would be cool if you all reached out and did a collaboration.

[@mbmmllc]

Thank you!

[@oldinuselesshancox5194]

Excellent post and thanks for making the world a bit better 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤙🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼🇳🇿

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

Go less fine and use it for sandblasting. Excellent media for that.

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

That’s pretty cool Jason.

[@vlady8me]

Hope you are well! How's the season going for you?

[@mrMacGoover]

This is another practical use for these machines, we really need to stop dredging oceans and rivers and destroying valuable aquatic marine habitat just to get sand for the construction industry.

[@artmcteagle]

Unfortunately, Jason said the grains are rounded which makes it pretty much useless for concrete, that's the reason desert sand is not used. Perhaps the machinery could be set up differently?

[@mrMacGoover]

@@artmcteagle A rolling ball mill crusher run for a short time would be better, a high speed pulverizer is too much.

[@artmcteagle]

@@mrMacGoover Adapting for purpose seems the way to go.

[@steffensen907]

Watched about cleaning the oil out of your rock saws. Try orange peel extracts to clean it up

[@gergc4871]

It looks like the bottles were clean Does it do through a washing process first?

[@jamesMurphy-c1w]

Are you doing ok. Love watching you. weekly

[@defydaoddz4211]

Awesome!!!

[@chamberjerry4732]

What is the "405DD" written on your hand? ARG?

[@christianjimbomb8204]

AWESOME 😂❤❤❤❤

[@markdukeshire4812]

Love this!

[@1944chevytruck]

AWESOME!

[@TerribleShmeltingAccident]

I live in columbus, ga...the site of the last battle of the civil war. Needless to say there is a ton of history in this town. I have come across slag at 2 sites, both were small forts and exist on union scouting reports. The slag from site 2 is a variety of greens (i think from the Fe (2 i believe,) and some of it has a thick mat layer. what is best way to process it further?

[@glenncombs3471]

This could be marketed to gardeners as path material. Would beer bottle brown glass show as a darker color if run separately?

[@junkinwithjoseph1946]

You didn't mention anything about the sticker labels.

[@dkohler5226]

So, who couldn't come up with better names for, four mile creek and ten mile creek?? Was in your neighborhood, but come to find out you close at 4pm, not 5pm. Went to the Sumas Historical Society Museum and shared a bunch of my Grandma's pictures of my dad's family today, from Ferndale and Sumas.

[@cbrown9555]

What about the paper labels

[@ETr4d3]

within 2-6 months it will naturally decompose.

[@1972Russianwolf]

Hey Jason, Do you have a plastic granulator? And any chance you guys making lighter duty machines for residential/non-commercial use? I'm a home recycler, trying to prevent everything that comes through my house from going to the landfill. organics are easy with a compost pile, metals and glass, not too hard. Plastics is the one area that I know we can't trust the recycle centers to actually recycle it, so we have to chart our own course. I'm supportive of the precious plastic movement and have some other ideas where their methods break down, but I need to be able to granulate the plastics to a relatively small size, 1/4 inch or so. Of course a machine that could reduce copper wire, glass and plastics would be the ideal. The Entry price for the smaller machines I've found is $1500-2500 (some from china and others that make the precious plastics versions of the machines). If you could make a machine in that range or close to it, you may open a wider market.

[@Zendukai]

We use tonnes of glass in our blast furnace.

[@dav1dbone]

Automation for sorting is fascinating, how does it handle for example aluminium lids or cork debris or plastic?

[@claudiosantana3320]

Wow, thats one tough machine grindrrs

[@AustinWilsonGlass]

Glass is the best

[@AlexWalford-jm3mg]

Jason needs to do a video where he takes every gold button he’s made that he hasn’t sold, purify it, and pour it into a gold bar

[@TheKrippler]

Jason do you have any advice for some who wants to be a Hardrock gold miner? Thank you

[@MountainJohn]

On this episode! Jason gets silicosis!

[@andrewwallace3444]

Add to bitumen for roads instead of digging up sand

[@DonAshcraft]

That's a lot of nice beer bottles going down! 😅

[@TrumpedUp888]

You can sell that to Refractory industrial companies. There is a Refractory mud that uses pulverized glass. Such as yours. Look up makers of Super 3000. Bet they'll strike a deal with ya.

[@verilliumfunk4886]

Is there any way to remove the plastic/glue by heating it?

[@AlbertSA3]

I wish that glue was at least all water soluble to help in removal. Or better yet, no labels and just emboss the bottles like they use to.

[@nicholasmcmillan7536]

Use it in paint as a reflection paint .

[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

Haha that's cool Jason.

[@jetegtmeier71]

if you try to remelt it do you know what color if any glass you would end up with?

[@CT-brook-geology-gold-gems]

The color would be brown. Just like when you combine all the colors of paint it becomes brown to black if every single color is present.

[@jetegtmeier71]

@@CT-brook-geology-gold-gems sooo beer bottle glass pretty much LOL

[@AlbertSA3]

​@@CT-brook-geology-gold-gemsnot necessarily. You're missing all the red spectrum in glass. Red glass can be made but it's more expensive. And technically in light, unlike paint, when you combine all the primary colors of light (red, green, blue) you get white. It's a good question though and sort of makes me want to pulverize certain colors exclusively to see if there's much difference in say like all dark blue glass turned into sand? Compared to all brown or all clear glass.

[@jayhales3822]

I was wondering if the labels contaminate the final product.

[@kevinmartin7760]

The paper and any metallic foil would be fine. Paper just forms humus and finely-divided metals will corrode away. The adhesive and inks may be benign or not depending on their formulation. However plastic coatings would generally break down into microplastics. It is probably more of a concern if plastic containers can end up in the feed. The jaw crusher would generally flatten these rather than breaking them up so a coarse screen could remove them. An inappropriately-sized plastic container might just clog the jaw crusher.

[@curtisw831]

Is there a materials engineer here who can say whether or not this could be used to make concrete or asphalt?

[@MikeBaxterABC]

Glass containers should be encouraged AND evey glass container shou have a deposit! .. Responsibility for collection should be AT EVERY point of sale, to ensure they all get bought back.

[@AlbertSA3]

I wouldn't mind a bag of that sand for botanical experiments. I'd assume it no nutritional value (0.00%) for plants and that's precisely what I'd want to start with. I could see it also being useful as a soil amendment.

[@scotthultin7769]

114 👍's up mbmllc thank you for sharing 🤗

[@highwayhydroponics5823]

What is the cost

[@olejrgenkiil6735]

just recykle it ..the glas befor chrushing it..meke new bottles or jars..

[@BillMulholland1]

👍

[@Shaggydude2]

Jason, i don't know how far behind this vid is, but with gold spot price almost $2400 oz, I'd be up in the mine getting every oz I could, i don't see gold staying this high after the election.

[@henningerflats]

A microscopic image would be nice.

[@ile84]

Why not make new glassware or decorative windows from that sand? :D

[@mrMacGoover]

I'd like to see concrete with rebar still in it as well as brick get crushed.

[@srgarathnor]

ok so that dust thats blowing, that will wreck your lungs my guy silicosis to the max

[@nucleochemist]

silicosis is caused by crystalline silica, for example quartz. Glass bottles are amorphous glass, which is the opposite of crystalline, so the risk is totally different. However, you should really avoid breathing any solid particles, it can still cause problems, but at least your lungs lymph can remove amorphous glass particles.

[@darkunicorn1208]

Whats weird is deserts are filled with sand and yet not utilized.

[@superslammer]

What about aluminium which isn't magnetic... Your sand contains paper and likely aluminum as well as other contaminants such as plastics.

[@jeffreyhampton9130]

you write telephone numbers and whatnot on your palms too

[@Darkt0mb5]

And this ladies and gentlemen is how they make chicken nuggets

[@davidanalyst671]

You put a lot of hours into the gold mine, are you going back? You never know what Jason is going to put in his videos lolz.

[@paulclarke4837]

THAT DUST IS ASKING FOR SERIOUS LUNG DAMAGE

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Why is that? It is just non-crystalline silica dust.

[@CT-brook-geology-gold-gems]

The product is not sand. The glass is still glass. Just mich smaller. It will cut your ling tissues.

[@dionh70]

What about your lung tissues? And furthermore, as it goes through the hammer mill, it's abraded and worn smooth by both the metal of the hammer mill and the rest of the other particles. Finally, anyone with a functioning brain (like people who know how to spell "much" and "lung") wear protective gear when working with materials like this in any case.

[@shaun138]

Gaddamn I hope I don't go to a beach or a municipal play area where they've used this kind of sand... I've ground telescope mirrors and I know that mirror dust (same thing as this) is real nasty and we use a mixture of soap and water to keep it out of the air while grinding. Silicosis ain't worth it man. This seems mega dangerous

[@dionh70]

"municipal"? Grinded is not a word either, so I can't put any credibility in your statements if you can't even spell.

[@shaun138]

@@dionh70 😘

[@larrydraper1620]

With DR MD and With medical and vitamins for Benadryl and vitamin basil and maybe fly to

[@williamloy8182]

I feel dumber after listening to this dude.

[@squishyxout]

Just realized it unsubscribed me from your channel. Stop doing this crap YT........

[@johnrnning5362]

I enjoy your videos, but a scrap dealer professionalism. Where's your gold? How much was there, is it a gold mine that you opened or did you lose on it? Be honest, we have full respect for your business of downsizing. Be honest, we see you and appreciate you. Love from Denmark.

[@dionh70]

The machinery manufacturing is what pays the bills for the gold mining, which is closer to a hobby than a business for MBMLLC.

[@adambunting7298]

Millionaire yet?

[@خالدسعد-خ5ض]

Why don't you try using an alternative to smelting materials, ground glass, black soil, and lead

[@williamnessanbaum7464]

What about the paper labels?