Waste Management will no longer accept glass in your curbside recycle cart

It’s now official, and effective immediately: Waste Management will no longer accept glass in your curbside recycle cart. The problem’s not that glass isn’t recyclable. It is. The problem is glass breaks! And when it breaks inside your cart or inside the recycle truck, it can mix in with the other recyclable items in your cart. Items like paper, cardboard (flattened to fit inside your cart), plastic bottles and jugs, and metal cans. And when broken glass mixes in with other materials it makes them less recyclable. That means they can’t be marketed for reuse by manufacturers. No reuse. No recycling.

There is an option. For more information on where you can take glass for recycling, go to MyDoRight.com. At that website, we list the locations and times you can drop glass off. If you don’t want to participate in glass recycling by dropping it off at designated locations, then put it in the trash, where it will ultimately be crushed and landfilled. We hope you won’t do that. What we do hope you’ll do is go to MyDoRight.com to learn more.