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Hard to Recycle. Easy to Reimagine. Glass, foam, and plastic film—collected curbside and transformed into something better.
We don’t just collect—we create.
Using recycled glass, we manufacture durable, sustainable products that give new purpose to discarded materials.
Products made locally Include:
Our foam is used in second life products like architectural trim, and we partner with Trex who turns plastic film into outdoor lumber for flooring and other products.
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Place your materials curbside on pickup day.
Our team handles sorting and transportation.
Materials are processed into reusable resources and products.
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Proudly serving Chattanooga, Tennessee and North Georgia, we’re building a better recycling system—one neighborhood at a time.
When you recycle with us, you’re not just reducing waste—you’re supporting a circular economy in your own community.
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Join residents and businesses across Chattanooga and North Georgia who are choosing a better way to recycle.
Sign Up Now Request Business ServiceAs a Chattanooga business, you can’t take your glass to the recycling center. Unless you’ve come up with a creative solution, most of your glass finds its way to the landfill. Join these other business and organizations who have already partnered with us, and we’ll change that for you.
The Scenic City, River City, Hill City, Gig City–Chattanooga has a lot of nicknames! Let’s try another one on for size: Glass City. It may not roll off the tongue easily, but it rings true. Or at least it did ring true. Chattanooga was once the glass capital of the South.
Read MoreMy family and I moved to Chattanooga in early 2021 with 3 young daughters in tow. We were living in Germany at the time, and the weight of the pandemic was bearing down on us. As my wife and I contemplated this next step in life, it was important for us to find a community where we could see ourselves raising our family.
Read MoreGlass recycling is tricky, especially for mid-sized cities like Chattanooga. Did you catch our note about that truck making a ~250 mile return journey to pickup our glass? This happens because there is no local processing of glass. To set up a processing facility that can clean and sort glass efficiently, you need A LOT glass.
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We currently accept Expanded Polystyrene, often known by the name Styrofoam(TM)
We accept most CLEAN and dry Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE), labeled as #4, plastic film and bags.
At our facility, we transform collected glass into recycled sand and gravel that are repurposed locally for a wide range of applications, including sandblasting media, pavers, and landscaping materials. Foam collected through our program is processed and compressed into dense blocks, which are then supplied to manufacturing partners that incorporate the material into new products such as residential crown moulding. Plastic film is carefully baled and provided to companies that convert recycled materials into durable composite products, including outdoor decking and building materials like those produced by Trex Company.
Not at all! The equipment we use leverages a patented process to mill and tumble glass. The resulting products are certainly rough (think coarse sand and gravel), but the sharp edges are gone.
