Springfield, 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.
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