[College Hill Topeka] Fwd: Media Release: Shawnee County Recycle Glass

[Katrina Shaw]

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From: Rachelle Vega-Retana <rvretana at topeka.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Media Release: Shawnee County Recycle Glass
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*Topeka, Kan.* – Shawnee County Solid Waste is increasing the
sustainability of recycled glass. Single-stream recycling, or collecting
all recyclables in one container, often results in contamination,
especially when glass breaks or when dirty containers are thrown into
curbside bins. The recycling facility cannot process the glass in a clean
enough manner for it to be sold as a recyclable commodity and therefore,
ultimately ends up being disposed of in the landfill. To alleviate the
disposal costs and increase the sustainability of our customer’s recycled
glass, Shawnee County has partnered with Ripple Glass
<http://www.rippleglass.com> to get the glass out of the single-stream
collection and into a dedicated glass recycling program.



Currently, all Shawnee County Solid Waste customers have recycle curbside
bins which were created and distributed in 2012. During this time, glass
was accepted and picked up with all other recyclables. There are over
40,000 recycle bins in use right now throughout the county with a label
indicating glass is acceptable. Bill Sutton, Director of Shawnee County
Solid Waste stated, “All of the new recycling bins that we are purchasing
have the changes made on the label.  It would require a great deal of
effort to print and apply new labels for the existing lids.  Therefore, we
are asking our customers to mark out the glass on their label or put a
piece of tape over it if it helps them remember not to put glass in the
recycling bin.”

Shawnee County Solid Waste customers have 5 designated locations throughout
Shawnee County to drop off your recyclable glass.



*Current Glass Recycling Locations*:

Wehner’s Thriftway – 551 E Hwy 24 Traffic Way, Rossville, KS

Household Hazardous Waste Facility – 131 NE 46th St., Topeka, KS

Albert Neese Masonic Lodge – 5947 SE 45th St., Tecumseh, KS

District 2 SNCO Public Works Building – 1639 N Washington Street, Auburn, KS

Lowes – 1621 SW Arvonia PL, Topeka, KS



Shawnee County Solid Waste is looking to add more locations. If you have a
business and interested in glass recycling, please email solidwaste at snco.us.



Attachment: Glass Recycling Flyer

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Amanda Monhollon

Public Information Officer

Board of County Commissioners

200 SE 7th, Room B-11

Topeka, KS 66603

Office: 785.251.4471

Cell: 785.670.0473



[image: SNCO logo] <http://www.snco.us/>





Rachelle Vega-Retana, Grants Administrator

City of Topeka, Dept. of Planning & Development

Division of Housing Services

620 SE Madison St.  1st Floor – Unit 8

Topeka, Ks. 66607

Phone: (785) 368-4490

Fax:      (785) 368-2546

Email:    rvretana at topeka.org



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