Most people toss a glass bottle into the recycling bin without a second thought. It's a small, almost automatic gesture. Yet ...

MOBILE, Ala. ( WALA) - The Pinehill Drive Recycling Center is set to reopen at 7 a.m. Saturday morning, June 6, the city ...

Dear Eartha, I heard that I can now put glass bottles and jars in my curbside recycling bin. Is that right? Yes, you heard right! As of May 1st, glass is welcome back in the curbside recycling game, ...

How a mobile glass crusher could help Charlotte build a local recycling economy. The city of Charlotte ships its glass waste nearly 250 miles to Atlanta for recycling. The nonprofit Envision Charlotte ...

Glass Act Recycling is hosting an open house to celebrate four years of operation and demonstrate its glass crushers. The non-profit has diverted 583,000 pounds of glass from landfills since opening ...

A pilot program to expand glass recycling to French Quarter bars and restaurants could help divert thousands of pounds of bottles and cans from the landfill — and bring some of it to Louisiana's ...

The French Quarter Management District launches a new glass recycling program for the hospitality industry. Hotels, bars and restaurants in the area will now be able to recycle wine bottles and other ...

For the first time since 2014, waste haulers in Summit County may soon be able to accept glass in single-stream recycling. County staff recommended, during a Feb. 17 meeting, that the Summit Board of ...

Every Saturday at 8 a.m., no matter the weather, Chris Pomfret sets up a dozen or so big garbage cans outside his church in Algiers Point on New Orleans’ west bank. Glass clinks and clatters as ...

Glass bottles are frequently used to package liquids like soda, juice, beer, and wine, and are accepted in most curbside recycling programs. So why is the glass recycling rate (34 percent) half that ...

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