Glass takes 1 million years to break down into its natural state and costs the village of Los Lunas $33.66 per ton to bury, $340,000 per year. The purchase of a glass crushing plant turned this huge ...

CHARLOTTE — After a weekend of Charlotte’s nightlife in full swing, the city accumulates thousands of pounds of glass bottles in recycling bins around the city. In most cases, Envision Charlotte’s ...

This is just one of the many applications/uses for the Merlin-VSI™ range of crushers. With worldwide stockpiles of waste glass forever growing and government taxes on landfill becoming ever more ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After enjoying your Maker’s Mark bourbon, the company says do not throw away the bottles, instead, turn them into something new. The company has launched a pilot initiative called, ...

Katie Aldworth grabs an empty wine bottle, puts it into a glass crusher, and then walks through her Maryland pottery studio with the end product: glass sand. After measuring out 275 grams, she pours ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Backyard Sapphire has been recycling glass since February of 2021. They started by turning bottles into pebble-sized mulch, then expanded to include crushing glass into sand.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The City of Tucson is using a new project to save money and help the environment. The city is using crushed glass to help with construction projects, and are testing the process on a ...

Take a seat on one of the benches along Main Street and look at the gravel-like stuff covering the planting beds. It may have been hoisted in a toast on St. Paddy’s Day. The “it” is glass — crushed ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The City of Corpus Christi is reentering the glass recycling business, which they had discontinued in the early 2000s. 3NEWS spoke with a bar manager and a restaurant owner ...