broken glass as infill material?

[swimmydeepo]

I am doing a bit of repairs on a rather old concrete slab with a few holes and cracks. Is broken toughened glass suitable as infill material? Common sense suggests so: impervious to water, tough, stable etc. Am I in the right direction?

Any suggestion from past experience appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex

[The Natural Philosopher]

well shingle is sort of broken colored glass anyway, so why not?

[Owain]

Glass cullet is used as a major ingredient of some types of road surfacing, so I expect it would work, FSVO "work". It would have a smooth surface so the concrete might not bind to it as well as to other "chunky bits".

Owain

[HLAH]

"Owain" wrote

Isn't that where our non-white, so desperately saved, recycled glass goes?

H

[Guy King]

The message from "HLAH" contains these words:

Often, though it's also used for golf-course bunkers. The problem is we import and awful lot of things in green glass, for which there is no local market as recycled. Plenty of market for it the other side of Europe...

[Dave Fawthrop]

|I am doing a bit of repairs on a rather old concrete slab with a few |holes and cracks. |Is broken toughened glass suitable as infill material? Common sense |suggests so: impervious to water, tough, stable etc. |Am I in the right direction?

I would not recommend walking barefoot on the result.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Ah, so if we pop the cork back in the empty bottle and drop it in the sea, they can pick them up as they come floating past... ;-)

[Andy Hall]

The Swiss were hoping to receive a large number in this way...

[Guy King]

The message from Andy Hall contains these words:

Anything to keep their navy from invading Luxembourg.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Best is to simply smash them and heave them in the sea.

In a year or two they make attractive pebbles.

[Guy King]

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

Provided they're deep enough. I layed my big toe open to the bone as a kid in St Mary's Bay 'cos of some broken glass on the beach.

[John Rumm]

After being put on a ship and sent to China, yup!