Research Projects

Use Of Glass Cullet In Landfill Engineering
The UK produces around 3 Mt of waste glass per year and of this around 927,000 tonnes are recycled. The main market for recycled glass is in the manufacturing of containers e.g. bottles and jars. In 2002 around 747,000 tonnes of container glass
was recycled. Much of the container... > Download PDF


The Cylinder Test With Glass Cullet
Thick non woven geotextiles are now extensively used to provide protection to the basal HDPE geomembrane of landfills in the UK. Following research carried out in Germany during the early 1990’s the Environment Agency published a methodology for a laboratory test, the so-called cylinder test, to be used as a design... > Download PDF