2018 Hinkley Center Contamination in Single Stream System Due to Glass and Non-Recyclables
Assessment and Evaluation of Contamination in Single Stream Recycling Systems Due to Broken Glass and Other Non-recyclables. In glass recycling, the efficiency of the Glass Breaker Screen was found to be 95 percent; however, the sort results indicated that the screen failed to separate grit, fines and sweepings from glass cullet. The acceptable rate of mixed glass was only 70 percent despite the high level of efficiency or the processing techniques. Here, efforts could be shaped to decrease the amount of grit, fines and sweepings in the inbound stream.