Glass 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. And, you need some local consumers of that glass cullet (fancy term in the glass industry for small pieces of glass). We’re big enough to generate thousands of tons of glass waste, but often not big enough to justify large glass processing facilities. We’re…Overlooked.
If this was an easy challenge to overcome we would already have a solution. But it’s not easy. That’s why we’re setting up a vertically integrated business to close the loop for glass recycling in our area
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