Geotechnical characteristics of recycled glass-biosolid mixtures

Abstract

The sustainable reuse of waste materials such as recycled glass (RG) and biosolids (Bio) in geotechnical applications would greatly reduce the demand for landfill sites and for virgin materials. The most important obstacle in the sustainable use of recycled glass and biosolids mixtures in geotechnical applications is the lack of knowledge about their engineering characteristics particularly when they are blended together. The use of such mixtures is a cost effective and innovative way of reusing both waste materials and overcoming the deficiencies that they would possess if they were used on their own. Preliminary tests were conducted on samples made of purely recycled glass and biosolids an..