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Casella and some other recycling operators say they could clean and sort glass, but the report says trucking the heavy material more than 200 miles is not economically feasible, and there’s no ...
As such, the city’s glass-recycling vendor isn’t accepting glass. “While we explore long-term solutions, all collected glass will be sent to the landfill,” the Sept. 24 post reads.
Sibelco to enter North American glass recycling industry with acquisition of Strategic Materials, Inc. April 23, 2024 02:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time ...
Recycling glass offers significant environmental benefits, including saving around 42 kWh of electricity, 20 gallons of oil, 1.5 cubic meters of landfill space, and preventing the release of 3.5 ...
Ripple Glass collects over 700 tons of glass every week in its iconic purple bins. Here’s what happens to your bottles, jars and vases.
When you take old glass to the container, it gets recycled and eventually turned into new glass for bottles or jars. The best part is that glass can theoretically be recycled endlessly.
Glass recycling is back in Seattle after a nearly year-long hiatus. Bottled-beverage drinkers kept putting their empties in recycling bins, but the recycling loop shattered after the region’s ...
Seattle-based recycling company Ridwell will expand its glass pick-up services in South Puget Sound, including the Olympia area. Sign-ups for biweekly services open Thursday, the company CEO said ...
O-I Glass Inc. has created 35 glass packaging collection sites to facilitate glass recycling for nine communities in North America. The information was offered as part of the Perrysburg, Ohio-based ...
St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer announced plans to end alley recycling on May 15, just one day before an EF3 tornado hit St. Louis. The city has since paused the program until June 30 to save resources ...
To make a place for recycling glass, the two founded Glass Half Full. File photo of Franziska Trautmann posing at Glass Half Full in New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021.
Glass recycling in Mat-Su was halted in 2008 because of high transportation costs and a lack of local processing facilities. PALMER - For the first time in nearly two decades, glass recycling is ...