Colorado companies, city launch glass recycling pilot.Fort Collins, Colo., Coors Brewing Co. and Rocky Mountain Bottle Co. have introduced a voluntary glass recycling Glass recycling is the process of turning waste glass into usable products. Depending on the end use, this commonly includes separating it into different colors. Glass normally comes in a number of colours. program that asks Fort Collins residents to separate glass from their other recyclables and to bring it to the city's recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. center. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in The Coloradoan (Fort Collins, Colo.), the pilot program is scheduled to run for 12 months and will then be evaluated. Fort Collins Senior Environmental Planner Susie Gordon tells the paper, "We're really working hard to recycle this stuff." The city currently commingles containers at the curb, which can result in contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. broken glass, which, prior to the fall of 2005, the city crushed and used as daily cover at the landfill. However, the glass has posed enough of a problem that the city has considered pulling the material from curbside curb·side n. 1. The side of a pavement or street that is bordered by a curb. 2. A sidewalk. adj. Located, operating, or occurring at or along the sidewalk or curb: collections, according to The Coloradoan. Glass collected through the pilot program will be trucked to Golden, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Bottle Co. at the expense of the bottle manufacturer and Coors. This should help to ensure that the bottles are recycled back into bottles as opposed to being used in other lower-value applications. |
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