Valuable recycling of LCD/OLED cullet/waste glass

Abstract

Common soda lime silicate waste glass generated from the bottle manufacturing, building, and automobile industries contributes to saving of production cost and CO₂ emission in glass industry. There is another type of waste glass recently emerged, namely, display waste glass derived from LCD and OLED industry. There are three main sources where the waste glass is generated: 1) LCD/OLED glass manufacturers, 2) LCD/OLED panel manufacturers and 3) end-of-life LCD/OELD devices. Both first and second sources are the onsite manufacturing of LCD/OLED glass or panels in four Asian countries. Whereas, the third one is anywhere LCD/OLED devices are used. Therefore, the disposal of the end LCD/OLED waste glass from the third source is not a local but a global issue. In the present paper, the recycling possibility of such waste glass is reviewed based on literatures and their results are discussed from the viewpoint of valuable recycling.