â™» Recycled Glass Filter Media
Every Fragment Recycled. No Picking, No Choosing — Just 100% Recovery
â™» Recycled Glass Filter Media
Why Choose Our Recycled Glass Filter Media
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Virgin glass isn’t the answer — some filtration media on the market is made from newly manufactured glass, increasing demand for quarried materials.​
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Selective recycling falls short — other producers use only one or two colours of glass, cherry‑picking what suits them rather than recycling the full waste stream.
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We recycle 100% of the material — our recycled glass sand incorporates every colour of glass available. We recover a highly valuable waste stream abandoned by the bottle‑manufacturing industry and normally destined for landfill.
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A direct, high‑performance replacement — our Recycled Glass Filter Media drops straight into existing sand filters, improving performance with no additional capital expenditure.
Benefits
Sharp free
Environmentally friendly 100% recycled product
With superior permeability and a 30% smaller headloss development compared to sand; backwashing is quicker and less frequent saving you time, energy and money.
Angular to sub-angular particle shape and bound silica content provides a 30% improvement in turbidity removal over silica sand.
Less susceptible to bio-fouling as, unlike silica sand Glass Filtration Media particles have a smoother surface, so bacteria cannot get trapped in any cracks or flaws, which means less remedial action and again less chemical treatment to destroy pollutants.
Less dense than sand, requiring 15% less media to fill the equivalent filter.
Properties
An eco-conscious product produced from 100% recycled post-consumer soda-lime-silica glass, subjected to first-class processing offering a supremely safe product.
Highly negatively charged zeta potential; pH 7.8 = 40.5mV - measured by a Colloidal Dynamics Zetaprobe.
Compliant with European Water Directive (98/83/EC) & (80/778/EEC)
Compliant with WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality 1993.
Compliant with BSEN12902 and BSEN 12904.
Uniformity coefficient of 1.41
Sphericity factor of 0.7
Roundness factor of 0.4
Embodied Energy 0.205MJ/kg
Standard Product Grades
Whilst we are not limited to the product grades listed below. They have been developed to offer optimal filtration performance when used in sand filters.
0.5mm - 1.0mm
1.0mm - 3.0mm
