Meat and bone meal ash, mixed with recycled soda-lime-silica glass and small amounts of additives, was successfully valorised in the processing of sintered glass ceramics, after melting and forming two calcium phosphate glasses. Sintering was applied to fine powders (,37 mm) at temperatures of 700-1070uC for 0?5-2 h, after very rapid heating (40uC min 21 ). Mixtures with small additions of CaO and CaF 2 led to fluorapatite-wollastonite glass ceramics, which retained a significant porosity even at 1070uC, due to the delay in viscous flow caused by rapid crystallisation. This feature was exploited for strong open celled macrocellular glass ceramics, obtained by sintering glass powders mixed with polyethylene sacrificial templates. Mixtures with small additions of CaO and Na 2 O led to dense and strong combeite glass ceramics (bending strength, .100 MPa), sinterable at particularly low temperatures (800uC). Both porous and dense glass ceramics could be exploited as low cost and high strength materials, or even as biomaterials, due to the biocompatibility of the crystal phases.