The average American discards more than 10 pounds of clothes each year. 1000 tons of the clothes that we donate are sold and shipped overseas, causing problems for local culture and economy.
Local Changes Mean Good News for Glass
One major challenge for local governments and haulers has been the high cost of getting curbside glass to a market. Because curbside glass is mixed by color, it must go to an optical sorter for color sorting before going to a glass bottle manufacturer. Until recently, no local recyclers had optic sorting technology.
It looks like this trend will soon change.
