By Elio Gugliotti, Editor
Patrick Grasso, a principal of Urban Mining Northeast, gives a tour of the company’s plant on Breault Road in Beacon Falls on May 5. –ELIO GUGLIOTTI
BEACON FALLS At the end of Breault Road, after the pavement turns to dirt, there’s a facility that is making a one-of-a-kind product: Pozzotive.
Pozzotive is a finely ground glass powder that can be used as a pozzolan to replace up to 50% of the cement in concrete. Urban Mining Northeast, which is based in New Rochelle, N.Y., makes Pozzotive at the plant on Breault Road through a patented process from recycled glass collected at municipal recovery facilities. The process sorts out the debris and removes the ceramics from the glass then refines it into a sand-like substance.