This week on Possibly we weigh the different methods of recycling glass: single-stream, multi-stream and bottle bills. Could switching to a different recycling system make more sense for your ...
The Glass Recycling Foundation (GRF), a nonproft based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has awarded about $70,000 in grants to support equipment, education and pilot project activities that improve glass ...
The Arlington, Virginia-based Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), along with beverage leaders including Diageo and New Belgium Brewing, as well as the glass processing and recycling industry, have ...
Glass belongs in the glass container—that's obvious from the name. But should the lid stay on the empty jam jar, or is it ...
While it was originally used for jars, beads, and bowls, glass now serves numerous purposes, such as windows, shelves, lighting, appliances, fiber optic cables, and solar panels. The limited lifespan ...
Glass bottles, jars, and other containers are 100% recyclable. Yet, only about a third of these items get recycled each year, a recent report by the Glass Recycling Foundation said. The remaining 6 ...
A random call from a reporter piqued my interest: Does recycling glass really save energy? That is, after you take into consideration all the energy spent to collect glass from people's homes, truck ...
The rise of curbside recycling programs over the past few decades has meant more glass recycling. But for a long time, many recycling centers didn't have the technology to turn recycled glass into the ...
Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Yet in reality, single-stream recycling programs — ...
Centre County's recycling headquarters is now looking at expansion plans to become a regional center for processing recycled ...