DeKalb County, Georgia, to resume glass recycling program

The Atlanta (Georgia) Journal-Constitution reports that DeKalb County plans to hire a vendor to resume its residential glass recycling program. 

Although the county continues to collect glass, it stopped processing the material in 2015 when Pratt Industries opened its Conyers, Georgia, facility, which removes the glass from the incoming recyclables and landfills it, the article says. 

“Glass contained in single-stream recycling is now viewed as a containment to other recyclable materials, and the focus is currently how to make a glass a much more valuable recycling item,” a county statement says. “In light of this, the recycling industry is moving back toward the sort-separation process for glass as a recyclable material.” 

DeKalb will install large-volume glass recycling containers at sites throughout the county. The county does not anticipate a rate increase, according to the article.