A clean dry glass powder useful as a substitute for Portland cement in
concrete, in paints, and for other known uses for glass powder produced
conventionally can be produced from unsorted post-consumer waste glass,
including a subsatantial fraction of non-glass items, by employing glass
pulverizing equipment to reduce waste glass to small fragments, allowing
removal of trash, employing a multistep washing process to clean the
glass fragments, in the preferred embodiment using aggregate cleaning
equipment, drying the fragments, preferably using fluidized bed
techniques, and grinding the glass to a desired particle size, preferably
using a ball mill, in combination with an air classification step to
produce a glass powder of uniform particle size.