The non-profits Ravalli County Recycling (RCR) and Recycling Works MT will sponsor another glass recycling event Saturday March 12.
The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the north end of the Ravalli County Fairgrounds on Old Corvallis Road.
It’s been five months since the last Bitterroot glass recycling day so recyclers have been saving up for a while. Only clean, unbroken, food and beverage containers can be recycled on this day.
For years people have been asking RCR why they couldn’t recycle glass. RCR volunteers would explain that because glass is heavy the cost of shipping it would mean little or no profit. Then Recycle Works MT in Missoula found a way. They found a company in Salt Lake City that would pick up Montana glass and recycle it.
Momentum Recycling in Salt Lake City sends loaded trucks to Montana, unloads them, fills their trucks with glass at Recycling Works MT’s Missoula site and drives it back to Salt Lake. In Salt Lake the glass is repurposed into insulation and other products. Momentum Recycling has a laser system that sorts glass by color. Different colors are used for different products.