Has anyone had any luck recycling glass taken from a commercial building? They are double pane commercial units removed from the curtainwall system. Our client is replacing a significant amount of glass on a 20 year old building to increase the overall performance of the building but we are having a hard time finding a place to recycle the glass units and this will be a large amount of weight in relation to the total amount of demo debris.

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Thu, 03/03/2016 - 16:10

Donald - I haven't had success in this arena. This 2011 blog implies that it can be used to make fiberglass and glassphalt - http://recyclenation.com/2011/09/window-glass-recycling-difficult-not-impossible. It might be worth checking with manufacturers in your region. The blog also suggests some ideas for salvaging the windows. I also found this resource in a quick Google search for window glass recycling - http://www.dlubak.com/ - "one of the largest recyclers of Window Plate and Container glass" with "six plants located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona, in addition to numerous depots throughout the US, Canada and Mexico." If nothing else, removing the frame to recycle it separately from the glass might be an option. However I hope other LEEDusers who have experience will chime in.

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