As glass recycling has become more ...

As glass recycling has become more widespread, thus has the problem of glass containers of different colors breaking and mixing together, leaving a cullet that cannot be mixed with any common color.

Oberlin, Ohio, population 8800 has take rise up with an alternative use for mixed glass cullet accidentally generated in collection and processing of recyclables. The city stockpiles the cullet for use as a construction aggregate.

Glass accounts for about 70 percent of the weight of mixed rigids continued movemented at Oberlin's materials recovery facility, hasten by Houston-based Browning-Ferris Industries.

City officials first determined that glass cullet does come up to face to face many of the construction aggregate criteria (for example, it is porous, nontoxic, non-reactive and athletic in compaction).

Officials then discloseed a proposal for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention to help permanent fund the reconstruction of a section of public way using the ...