"It's likely that you've encountered recycled glass countertops without realizing it. They're far from the hippie-style broken-glass mosaic art of yesteryear, instead presenting as sleek, highly polished, professional slabs with intriguing bits of confetti-style color trapped inside. That's the recovered glass bits set into a binding material such as resin, cement, or concrete, and then smoothly polished so that the composite surface feels like stone."
"The glass fragments act as hard elements, while the binder holds everything together into a single durable slab that can be fabricated in the same way as other countertop materials. This allows for things like sink cutouts, counter edges, and adjoining seams. The term 'durability' covers a lot of territory, but recycled glass countertops are largely considered sturdy and resilient, resisting heat damage and scratching. Like most countertops, they can be subject to staining."
Recycled glass countertops present as sleek, polished slabs with colorful glass fragments embedded in a binder such as resin, cement, or concrete. Recovered glass pieces provide hard inclusions while the binder forms a single durable surface that can be fabricated for sink cutouts, edges, and seams like other countertop materials. These surfaces resist heat and scratching and are generally considered sturdy, though they can stain. Depending on the manufacturer, recycled content can reach 85 to 100 percent, diverting material from landfills and reducing demand for virgin production and associated energy use. Manufacturing can entail additional environmental impacts.
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