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Permalink Reply by andrew on January 29, 2008 at 4:30pm

Glass is still not as lucrative to recycle as plastic, tin, newsprint (ahem) and cardboard.

Our pal Dan McKay interviewed city solid waste management director Leonard Garcia in November, and he said glass was basically sitting in a pile.

"But there’s little market for some recyclables, such as glass, Garcia said. “We’re stockpiling that,” he said.

I'll still haul mine to the bins at K-Mart, though.

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Permalink Reply by Alexis on January 29, 2008 at 4:41pm

Thanks Andrew - I thought I remembered Sir McKay doing a story on this.

Is "stockpiling" really different than "in a landfill?" I have plenty of (um) stockpiles at my house that eventually wind up as, well, trashpiles.

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Permalink Reply by Robert S. on January 29, 2008 at 10:42pm

Leonard garcia, take that glass to the recyclers instead of stockpiling it! We pay recycling fees - to do the special collection and to make up the shortfall when it costs more to bundle and transport materials than what can be had from the market price for that item. There is no reason it should be sitting around and not in the hands of someone who will melt it down and prepare it for reuse.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly on January 31, 2008 at 8:51am

The parking lot is being repaved. The bins will return when the paving is complete.

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Permalink Reply by Shifty on August 1, 2011 at 8:23am

Is glass really recycled? Does anyone have the latest information on this topic? I see this forum topic is a few years old, but I was recently told that glass deposited in recycling bins around the city is just ground up and deposited in the landfill because the city has nowhere to take it.

 

I can't find anything to corroborate this on the city website or the Albuquerque Journal website.

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Permalink Reply by Robert S. on August 1, 2011 at 8:52am

I think the city's glass goes to a Santa Fe company. I can't find a link to the story where I heard that but I think it was mentioned in the Journal or on one of the local tv station newscasts about a year ago.

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Permalink Reply by Robert S. on August 1, 2011 at 8:59am

Found this link:

 

http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/local/showcase/landfill-gas-re...

 

Talks about landfill gas but there is a mention that Growstone has a agreement with the city to use the city's collected glass in their product.

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Permalink Reply by Shifty on August 1, 2011 at 12:23pm

Thanks, Robert S.!

From that EPA web page:

"The City of Albuquerque has partnered with Growstone to recycle the glass collected through the City's recycling program. Growstone crushes the received glass into a powder to make an agricultural soil amendment product that conserves water."

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Permalink Reply by Nnett on August 1, 2011 at 1:24pm

Yes!  I knew there was something like this in place, but I couldn't find any info to post.  Albuquerque Hydroponics and Lighting used to sell this stuff- not sure if they still do...

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Permalink Reply by Michael Cadigan on August 1, 2011 at 7:57pm

nearly all of it goes inthe landfill because the transportationcost exceeds any value  this is why we should all drink local draft beer or any draft beer if local is not available  if not draft, then cans can be and are recycled.  

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Shifty on August 2, 2011 at 10:22am

How do you know it goes in the landfill? Do you work there? Did you read about it somewhere? Thanks.

 

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Permalink Reply by Phil_0 on August 2, 2011 at 10:29am

He's a former city councilor for the West Side, so I'm guessing he has the inside scoop...

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