Glass recycling finds funding on campus
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Glass recycling finds funding on campus
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Projects Updates for Glass Recycling at Housing Catering Services
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Archived - project description
Associated Project(s):Description archived and replaced 11/05/2017:
Housing Dining Services has begun recycling the glass wine and liquor bottles from their Catering Services operation, as of the end of July 2013. There is a new company in Champaign-Urbana called Green Purpose, which is accepting the glass that Catering collects for recycling.
Primary Contact archive and replaced 11/05/2017:
Bryan Johnson
Additional glass recycling
Associated Project(s):F&S will talk with Housing the week of Aug. 28, 2017, to discuss their assistance in providing glass recycling for the Wounded Vets Center and potentially several other locations.
Volume of glass from Housing
Associated Project(s):University Housing's Dining Services is averaging 13,877 pounds of glass per year.
The current total is 55,509 pounds of recycled glass!
That's almost 28 tons!