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Article: Glass recycling faces fragile financial future.(Environment)(Some communities have dropped the costly material from curbside collection)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2003
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Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard
All those wine bottles, juice containers and pickle jars set out each week for the recycling truck don't always reappear weeks or months later on grocery store shelves. Sometimes, they never return.
The market for recycled container glass is in a slump, and the material - troublesome to collect and expensive to haul - is growing more unpopular. Some Oregon cities have even dropped glass recycling from their curbside programs.
While that's not likely in Lane County, the downturn is disappointing in a place where people put more in their recycling bins than the average Oregonian.
Glass especially ...