Cullet acquires Repeat Glass assets, establishes Cullet Ohio

Cullet LLC, a company building circular glass systems and infrastructure, has announced the formation of Cullet Ohio, a new regional operating entity created to acquire the assets of Repeat Glass, a northeast Ohio glass recycling company. 

Cullet holds a majority ownership stake in Cullet Ohio. The company says this transaction establishes its first operating platform and advances its strategy to build regional glass reuse and recycling systems across the U.S. 

Repeat Glass founder Jamie Arnold will roll significant equity into the new entity and join Cullet as vice president of business development, based in the Cleveland-Akron metropolitan area. 

Cullet founder and CEO Gregory Leibert will continue to lead the company's strategic vision, capital formation, expansion and educational initiatives. 

According to Cullet, less than one-third of glass is recycled in the U.S., with much of it entering single-stream systems where breakage and contamination prevent it from returning to new container production. 

Cullet's model addresses this through source separation at home and work, partnering with restaurants, bars, wineries, breweries, distilleries, music venues and event spaces to ensure glass is separated on site. 

Cullet Ohio will focus on local processing and long-term value retention by expanding source-separated glass collection across northeast Ohio, strengthening community, hospitality, municipal and producer partnerships and producing manufacturing-grade cullet suitable for container-to-container recycling. 

Cullet aims to strengthen regional supply chains, reduce long-haul transport of heavy glass and cullet and retain economic value within the communities it serves. 

“Source separation and regional infrastructure are the foundations for rebuilding America's glass economy into a circular system,” Leibert says. “We're not simply collecting glass; we're redesigning how it moves through communities so it retains its highest value. Cullet Ohio represents the first step in building durable, scalable platforms that reconnect local collection to manufacturing, and soon reuse.” 

Arnold brings more than a decade of entrepreneurial experience building glass recycling businesses. Prior to Repeat Glass, Arnold spent seven years as founder and operator of GlassBandit in Kansas City, Missouri, which now operates as Crush Glass KC. 

Arnold has developed partnerships with communities, educators, hospitality groups, municipalities, glass processors, manufacturers and sustainability leaders. He has designed commercial collection routes, managed subscription programs, built community drop-off networks and overseen fleet operations to maintain clean, source-separated glass streams. 

Arnold will leave his role at Case Western Reserve University to focus on expanding commercial, residential and municipal glass recovery and recycling systems. 

“Glass waste has tremendous value—we simply need scalable systems to capture it,” Arnold says. “This partnership allows us to grow the operation while remaining grounded in people and relationships within our local communities.”