St. Johns County, Fla. Keeps Glass Off the Curb

The St. Johns County (Florida) Commission has decided against reinstating its curbside glass recycling program, according to a report in the St. Augustine Record (St. Augustine, Fla.).

Residents with glass bottles and jars to recycle will have to continue bringing them to the county drop-off points, according to the report.

Glass was eliminated from the curbside program in 2003 because of mounting expenses.

“You add another $500,000 a year to the county’s cost by adding glass recycling,” Jim Arnold, of one of the county’s waste haulers Seaboard Waste Systems, tells the Record.

Arnold tells the paper that it cost about $1.95 per home for recycling services in 2003. After glass was cut from the program, the cost per home fell to about $1.15, he says.