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Residential Multi-Family Recycling

Offer glass recycling as your community’s next amenity.

And give your residents a perk they truly want
(without breaking your budget).

Why offer glass recycling in your community?

Chattanooga wants glass recycling

Your future community members have to drive to the recycling center to drop off glass if they want to recycle. It’s probably not surprising that most of them don’t want to do that. Draw them in with a perk they might not have experienced before.

You want to positively impact the area

Or maybe you just want bragging rights—we don’t judge. Highlight your sustainability efforts to set yourself apart from other communities. Take it a step further and use our recycled materials for your landscaping and construction to reduce the impact of local mining for sand and other aggregates.

We like to give you membership benefits

Our relationship doesn’t end at the curb. Pass along exclusive access to limited production materials and special events to your residents.

Everyone wins

We’ll work with you to estimate how much weight will come out of your waste stream, potentially reducing your hauling costs. You save money, your residents enjoy a new perk, and Chattanooga stays beautiful for generations to come. When we all work together, we all win.

How it works

1. You pick the number of 95-gallon bins you need.

2. You choose from three different pick-up frequency options.

3. We bring you everything you need.

4. You place your community’s bin(s) in a central location.

5. Your residents bring the glass and get membership benefits.

6. You make a difference in Chattanooga for years to come.

Pricing for community-wide glass recycling

What you pay

Making an impact doesn’t have to break the budget. Set your community a part from the rest for just a few dollars per unit each month.

Your monthly fee depends on the number of bins you want and how often you’d like your glass recycling picked up. Use the table below to see our different pricing options.

What you get

  • 95 gallon bins with locking options
  • Weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly pick-up
  • Data on your estimated waste diversion
  • Batch processing of your own materials for your landscaping (separate pricing)
  • Membership benefits to pass along to your residents: member-only events, discounted products, limited edition products, and more

95 gallon monthly

$45

1 bin – $45

Set up fee: $75

95 gallon Bi-weekly

$65-125

1 bin – $65

2 bins – $95

3 bins – $125

Set up fee: $75 per bin

95 gallon Weekly

$150-225

2 bins – $150

3 bins – $190

4 bins – $225

Set up fee: $75 per bin

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Your Chattanoooga community is beautiful. Let's work together to keep it that way.

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Overlooked Materials Currently Services:


Chattanooga

Red
Bank

Lookout
Mountain

But there’s more to come! Outside of our initial service area? Join the waitlist and let us know where you’d like to see Overlooked Materials go next!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Glass is fundamentally a 100% recyclable material. However, glass has a lower recovery value compared with other recyclables like aluminum, tin, and cardboard.  The collection & processing of glass introduces all sorts of safety and maintenance challenges into single stream recycling processes. As a result, glass is not collected curbside in the much of the US.

Here in the Chattanooga region, more than 90% of post-consumer glass is not recycled. That’s more than 10,000 tons per year in our area which ends up in area landfills. The volume of glass that residents do recycle is processed in a way which is economically and environmentally unsustainable. Trucks make ~250 mile roundtrip journeys to pick up the glass, and it currently costs the City of Chattanooga and other area municipalities more to recycle than it would to send the glass to a landfill.

Couple of things to unpack here!

The drop off recycling centers are usually restricted to residents only. This means that businesses—restaurants, hotels, offices, etc.—cannot use the drop off points. More than half of all glass waste comes from non-residential entities, and almost all of this “commercial” glass ends up in a landfill.

For residents, when you recycle with us you’ll not only save your time, but by eliminating the collective thousands of inefficient miles driven to drop off recyclables, we expect to conservatively reduce the carbon footprint of your recycling efforts by >75%. (Contact us if you want to talk our math!)

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. In effect, we do through milling what takes mother nature years to create through sea glass.

Contact us to learn more. We’ll strive to answer your questions as transparently as possible.