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prototypes and models for packaging and products
industrial waste recycling inked paper, spent glaze-clay, and more.
building material & tile refractories
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recycled paper, clays, glaze, materials
Recycled Newsprint and Ceramic Water Filters: read more>>>>
Industrial Waste Minerals and Pulp Recycling
Problem in Brief:
Sludge from recycled papers that are loaded with ink, and/or scrap glazes or clays sit in piles in back rooms warehouses awaiting proper disposal. These sort of wastes if just disposed on a landfill would not leach out into watersheds.
Possible Remedy:
Mix waste materials like these up in the right way then fire them in forms for building material, brick or pavement and can be also an absorbent kitty litter, or cleanup medium. Cellulose fiber lends benefit to these mixtures just the same way way it does for normal clay materials. The ink on the paper will burn or melt into the ceramic.
Scrap glaze sludge mixed with recycled paper pulp has been successfully fired in the lab. The first test result was a gray colored hard tile with less than 0.01% water absorption (i.e. watertight).... with potential use as a durable building material transformed from these so called "toxic" wastes.
For detailed information on reclaim and recycling industrial ceramic and paper waste- contact Jon Williams and the Clay Guys Website.
