Recycling stained glass scrap

[Julie Westall]

Is there a protocol to disposing of glass scrap?  I have taken it to our local recycling center and they instruct me to just put it in the "construction debris" bin.  I have contacted local schools to see if they could use it in their art programs, and they have respectfully declined.  Surely there is a way to get this out of my studio and into proper hands.  Can't it somehow be recycled?

[glassheritage]

we give ours to habitat for humanity for their mosiac classes and to the girl scouts for stepping stone classes

[stainedinglass]

I used to work for a charity that took donations of glass and ceramics, the waste from this activity amounted to around 35 tonnes per year, even with this sort of volume I was unable to find a suitable place or way of having it recycled.

The crucks of it is that the mixture of glass types equates to a highly contaminated material. This is typically why only single color and glass types are recycled, i.e. clear glass jars and bottles.

I had to eventually settle for the fact that the waste glass was used to create semi-permanent roads (mixed with other aggregates) on the waste management sites and be happy that it was at least (technically) re-used.

It was always an uphill struggle to find outlets for the glass, with interested parties only ever taking a boxful to make such things as mosaics.