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Spokane, WA street paved in crushed glass

Until recently, empty bottles and jars had to be hauled hundreds of miles from Spokane to be transformed into recycled products.

Glass collected at the curb was trucked to Calgary, Alberta, and then Edmonton, where it was turned into fiberglass. When that market dried up, Spokane’s glass was shipped to Portland, where a recycling company prepared it for a train trip to California to turn it into wine bottles.

But concerns over the financial and environmental costs of shipping glass to faraway locations led the city to look for new possibilities. Now local glass is reused locally – in road construction.

Jonathan Brunt
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Full Story: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/02/city-street-paved-in-crushed-glass/

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