Glass Filter Media for Sand Filtered Pools

Superior Cleaning

Cleaner, lighter weight, highly angular crushed recycled glass provides an amazing 25% improvement in turbidity removal over silicas and and is equivalent to ZEOlite.
Crushed glass filtration media generally removes finer particles from water than silica sand of an equivalent grade, and is comparable to properly configured ZEOlite.
Weak negative surface charge holds fine particle sand positively charged iron and manganese ionsthat are easily released upon backwashing. Perfect for well water pools.
Crushed glass filtration media is less likely to block or channel than silica sand or ZEOlite and will not support moss or fungus growth in the media.

Safer to Use

Glass contains no crystalline silica - resulting inbetter lung protection for employees and a far healthier environment.
Manufactured from 100% recycled glass.
Glass grains are amorphous, smooth particles that have higher attrition strength and do not permanently trap bacteria in cracks.
Use of crushed glass filter media will lower yourconsumption of chlorine and coagulants. Coagulants and metal removers foul ZEOlite and are compatible with glass.

Lower Operating Costs: Easy Install and Maintenance

Labor and time savings to install.
Improved performance for pressure or gravity flow filters.
Weighing the same as sand, ECOsmarte® crushed glass filtration media provides more filter volume per pound as the entire bed filters.
Better permeability–backwashes with up to 25% less water, saving down-time and water/sewer charges.
Because glass cleans better, you save energy,operating costs and extend the life of your filter.
Comparable initial cost to ZEOlite to dealers, retails at $1 per lb of filter capacity.

Fresh or Saltwater Superior Filtration

For Use in Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Environmental Applications

ECOsmarte® glass is made from 100% recycled glass. It is crushed, dried at 250 degrees Fahrenheit and screened into various sized fractions to achieve optimal filtration properties.

As the grains are nearly all angular in shape and have a fairly high degree of sphericity, the filter bed tends to have more opened packing resulting in better permeability than a filter of spherical silica grains.

Because glass is amorphous and has no internal crystal structure, the particles are homogenous and have no grain boundaries. This gives glass more resistance to breakdown through filtration backwashing cycles.

Furthermore the lack of grain boundaries minimizes cracks where bacteria can lodge and resist flushing in back washing.

Glass particles have a slight negative charge on their surface, which tend to hold onto fine particles during the filtration cycle. Upon backwashing, this weak charge releases these fine particles to the effluent, thereby contributing to better filtration action. There is less water to the better permeability of a glass filter.

As crushed glass is lighter than silica sand; between 15 and 20% less glass is needed to fill a filtration unit. (The overall weight in the filter is equal when factoring in the pea gravel base). With the better filtration characteristics and lower density glass is a superior filtration media for many filtration applications. Glass filter media is being used in storm water runoff filtration systems as a replacement for silica sand. Using glass not only results in a good performance, but in real cost benefits over the life of a filter bed.

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Using ECOsmarte’s glass water filtration media results not only in outstanding performance, but in real cost benefits over the life of a filter bed.

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