Seeing the light in Baltimore
Baltimore`s Resource Recovery, an intermediate glass cullet processing facility, is utilizing light-based optical sorting technology to produce a cleaner end product. Resource Recovery, Inc. has found that keeping things simple at its year-and-a-half-old location in Baltimore is making practical economic sense--and dollars and cents. The company would rather put its money into hardware; there`s nothing particularly fancy about the operation. Anyone can crush glass, but the trick to a glass recovery operation is to add value to the cullet by cleaning it up. Intermediate cullet processor Resource Recovery, which buys its glass primarily from materials recovery facilities (MRFs) in the surrounding Baltimore-Washington, DC, area, has found that by utilizing the optical-sensing glass separation system, it cannot only separate glass by color, but can also lower the level of ceramic and other contaminants in its end product to virtually nil.
- OSTI ID:
- 449446
- Journal Information:
- Waste Age, Vol. 28, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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