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. In a rich agricultural and coal region, it is a wholesale trade, retail, and distribution center. Its varied manufactures include electronic equipment, farm machinery, paint, and brick and concrete products. The city is the seat of Springfield College in Illinois, Sangamon State Univ., Mo., is considering a contract with construction company APAC-Missouri to crush the city's recycled glass to be used in aggregate for road paving, according to a report in the News-Leader (Springfield, Mo.) The city generates around 375 tons of glass per year from its recycling centers, Barbara 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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