Can you recycle ceramic?

potterguy

Like how recycled? If you wish to recycle it like paper, no, that's not possible. It's fired, fixed, as it is, forever. One possibility...if you find a facility who will do this for you, is to take the fired ceramic pieces and grind them into a fine mesh powder, say what will pass through a 20 mesh sieve, and then provide it back to the ceramics industry for use as "grog", a fired clay filler for a raw clay body. (It helps to control shrinkage in the raw clay.) However, they're pretty picky about what is used for this product and I'm thinking anything that is fired with glaze on it, or which won't be able to stand the temperatures the final product will be fired to will be unacceptable. Dec 08 04, 6:23 AM

kaylofgorons

You might be able to reuse it as tiles in a mosaic or different art projects. What ever it is used for will have to deal with broken edges first. Dec 08 04, 11:12 AM