About Us.
Our Mission
Our goal is to keep glass out of landfills and make it into new materials that support our environment and economy. We hope to build awareness around the many benefits of glass recycling in our community.
How it started.
It all began after moving into our new home, where we quickly learned about the lack of glass recycling options in our area. One night, after celebrating our new home with a bottle of wine (or two), we went to take them to our recycling bin and noticed the bold letters that say, NO GLASS. We were perplexed and had to figure out what we do with our empty glass bottles. After doing some digging, we learned that single-stream recycling no longer includes glass because it can decrease the quality of materials recovered. Putting all material into a single bin can increase the likelihood of contamination due to broken glass and the propensity to toss non-approved material into the recycling bin.
After research and calls to different waste companies, we learned that there are two drop-off points for the whole county to bring empty glass bottles. We wanted to create a program that makes it easy and convenient to recycle glass. We believe our plan will help divert glass from landfills and repurpose a material that can be recycled endlessly. Rather than becoming a glass recycling facility ourselves, we decided to partner with the existing vendors that already haul glass—specifically transporting glass to recycling facilities like Strategic Materials, Inc. right here in Georgia. SMI is a leading processing facility that crushes glass into a cullet and supplies this to manufacturers who make it into new glass products or other materials made with glass.
We decided to start our glass recycling pickup program to make it easy once again for everyone to recycle their glass.