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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
City Makes Glass Recycling Agreement
By Journal Staff Report
City Hall has stockpiled glass for years because it's been unable to recycle it on a large scale.
That's about to change.
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez and executives of Growstone LLC, a local company, announced an agreement Tuesday to start turning the city's discarded bottles and jars into a soil amendment.
The city accepts glass at drop-off centers around town. But after collecting the glass, the city has been unable to find a market for it.
Growstone is setting up equipment at the West Side landfill, where it will crunch and burn the glass into pumice-type rocks. The pebbles retain moisture well, and the company will sell them to agricultural groups or others as a "soil amendment."
"It's marvelous technology," Chávez said.
Growstone is expected to pay the city about $20 a ton.
The initiative is part of the mayor's goal to stop adding to landfills by 2030 through increased recycling and other efforts.
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