DeKalb County鈥檚 government is asking residents to stop putting glass in their curbside recycling containers.聽Instead, those who want to recycle their glass can bring it to any of 16聽locations across the county.
The new glass recycling聽process goes into effect July 17 after it was approved by the DeKalb Commission on Tuesday.
Glass should be separated from other recyclable materials, according to the county. Glass too often shatters in recycling containers, ruining other materials like cardboard, paper and aluminum.
For residents who don鈥檛 want to sort their glass and drive it to a recycling center, they should throw it away with the rest of their non-recyclable trash, according to the county.
鈥淒eKalb joins a growing nationwide trend to adopt the glass sort-separation process in order to preserve the integrity of recycled glass,鈥澛爏aid DeKalb County Sanitation Division spokeswoman Pauline Andrea.
Glass collected by the county hasn鈥檛 been recycled since 2015. That鈥檚 when the county鈥檚 recycling company,聽Pratt Industries, opened a facility in Conyers that doesn鈥檛 process glass. The glass ended up in a landfill.
The county recently contracted with聽Strategic Materials, which has a plant in College Park that recycles glass. Strategic Materials will pay DeKalb $30 for every ton of glass the county drops off, Andrea said.
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