Driving on broken glass.* Springfield Springfield. 1 City (1990 pop. 105,227), state capital and seat of Sangamon co., central Ill., on the Sangamon River; settled 1818, inc. as a city 1840. , Mo., is considering a contract with construction company APAC-Missouri to crush crush A combination commodity trade in which soybean futures are purchased and soybean meal or oil futures are sold. Compare reverse crush. the city's recycled glass to be used in aggregate for road paving, 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 News-Leader (Springfield, Mo.) The city generates around 375 tons of glass per year from its 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. centers, Barbara Barbara maid exemplifying personal and domestic neatness. [Br. Lit.: Old Curiosity Shop] See : Orderliness Lucks, the city's recycling coordinator, tells the News-Leader. And with no local end market options for the material, Lucks tells the paper the city spends about $23,000 per year transporting it to other buyers. If the new contract is approved, the city's recycled glass would instead be stored at the Springfield landfill, where once a year, APAC-Missouri would bring glass-crushing equipment to the site to process the glass into aggregate, according to the paper. The annual service will cost $13,000, saving the city $10,000 per year, Lucks tells the News-Leader. The city would keep the glass aggregate and could require it be used in city road projects. |
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