Objective assessment of recycled glass for architectural application

Rodney Bender, Dr Ray Brown, Prof Kelvin Donne and Tyra Oseng

This poster describes the results of an investigation into the physical and aesthetic properties of fused recycled bottle glass. Having established that waste bottle glass was being used in bulk in a number of construction-based applications, it was realised that there had been no systematic studies of the properties of the fused material, knowledge of which would allow the applications base to be broadened into other areas such as art glass and architectural application. The underlying rationale for doing the study was the potential environmental benefit of finding alternative uses for a waste material and the belief that the material itself could have unique aesthetic properties.

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