LATEST NEWS

March 17th, 2010 - "Trash Fees Drop". The Bristol Press. March 16, 2010. BRISTOL — For the first time, the regional trash agency is lowering the cost of (...) [ read more ]

March 10th, 2010 - Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee Announces Household Hazardous Waste Collections for 2010. 2010 Household Hazardous Waste Collections for TROC member communities. (...) [ read more ]

LATEST LEGISLATION

March 8th, 2010 - Testimony of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility & Tunxis Recycling Operating Committees to the Legislative Program & Review Investigations Committee March 8, 2010. Testimony of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee & the Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee (...) [ read more ]

March 8th, 2010 - Testimony of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee And the Tunxis Recycling Operating Committee to the Environment Committee March 8, 2010. An Act Concerning Recycling, Certain Solid Waste Management Reforms and Requirements for Solid Waste and (...) [ read more ]

Glass

U.S. recycling rates for glass declined by nearly 50% over the past 10 years, according to the Container Recycling Institute. In the early years of TROC's recycling program, the sales of recycled clear glass were a major portion of revenues from recovered products. Towards the end of the 1990s, U.S. glass processors began shuttering furnaces throughout the U.S. as market share declined as a result of competition from lighter weight plastic and aluminum, and the use of glass for milk containers is virtually nonexistent.

There is limited demand for using recycled glass cullet, the product made by purifying post-consumer glass, to make new beverage containers in the U.S., and EPA estimates the national recycling rate is slightly over 25%. Much of WMRA's recycled glass is sold to a major U.S. processor which utilizes advanced optical sorting technology and multiple sorting steps to prepare products for sale to overseas markets. Few domestic markets exist for making new glass from recycled glass, primarily because of potential contamination of the processed glass cullet; common impurities include ceramics and leaded glass.