Rumpke to Invest $2.5M in Glass Recycling
Rumpke Recycling will invest $2.5 million in new machinery at its Dayton, Ohio plant to more effectively and economically process glass collected through its residential and commercial recycling programs. It will partner with glass manufacturer Owens-Illinois, headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, to build enhanced technology to process glass. The new system will create a product suitable for the glass container industry to manufacture new glass bottles.
Installation of the equipment will begin April 2011 and will be completed by mid-August 2011. State-of-the-art optical scanning technology will make recycling glass containers used by consumers, as well as bars and restaurants, easier and more economical. Simultaneously, as the program evolves, job growth is expected throughout the state.
Rumpke opened the glass recycling facility in 2002 to process broken, mixed color glass separated at its recycling facility in St. Bernard. The facility processes and markets about 15,000 tons of glass each year. Much of that material had been sent to Johns-Manville, a fiberglass manufacturing firm with a production facility in Defiance, Ohio. Johns-Manville will still use 50% of material collected by Rumpke. The rest will be sold to those in the glass container industry.
“Securing consistent markets for glass has been a long-time challenge for Ohio recyclers. While many collection programs seek to remove glass from their recycling programs, Rumpke has committed a substantial amount of capital and time to incorporate glass as one of the items Ohio households and businesses can recycle on a daily basis,” said Steve Sargent, director of Rumpke Recycling, in a news release. More
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