IMVIGR - Intelligent Machine Vision Inspection for Glass Recovery

英国每年生产75万吨平板玻璃，其中四分之三用于建筑玻璃产品。在英国，我们每年产生近20万吨消费后玻璃垃圾。这些垃圾中的大部分被填埋或被碾碎成骨料。玻璃是回收利用的完美材料，在现代循环经济中能够100%重复使用。在平板玻璃生产中使用更多回收玻璃的主要障碍是可获得质量可接受的回收玻璃。这是因为，用于制造平板玻璃的回收玻璃受到任何轻微污染，都会导致可报废的缺陷，并导致数天的生产损失，有效地抵消了回收的环境和成本效益。目前，英国生产的平板玻璃的回收含量在20%-30%之间。I3D Robotics由玻璃技术服务公司支持，旨在生产一种能够检测回收平板玻璃产品上的污染的集成仪器，以鼓励更多地使用回收材料。这将使英国建筑环境、材料生产、废物和回收行业能够实现复苏，并支持未来的循环经济发展，这些行业已经受到新冠肺炎疫情的显著影响。

The UK manufactures 750,000 tonnes of flat glass each year, three quarters of which goes into glazing products for buildings. In the UK, we generate almost 200,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass waste each year. Much of this goes to landfill or is crushed into aggregate. Glass is the perfect material for recycling, capable of 100% reuse within a modern circular economy. The main barrier to using more recycled glass for flat glass manufacture is the availability of recovered glass of an acceptable quality. This is because any slight contamination of the recycled glass used to manufacture flat glass will cause rejectable defects and result in several days of lost production, effectively cancelling out the environmental and cost benefits of recycling. Currently the recycled content of flat glass produced in the UK is between 20%--30%. I3D Robotics supported by Glass Technology Services aim to produce an integrated instrument capable of detecting contamination on recovered flat glass glazing products to encourage greater use of recycled content. This will enable recovery and support future development of circular economies for the UK's built environment, materials production, waste & recovery industries which have been dramatically impacted on by the COVID-19 pandemic.