Colorado

Rocky Mountain Bottle Company Collection Event

10619 W 50th Ave
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

RMBC is holding a Community Glass Recycling Collection Event in Golden at 10th and Illinois (by the Tennis Courts), September 19th thru 27th. Join us during the Golden Farmers’ Market on Saturday the 19th and 26th from 8am to 1pm. Stop by any day between the 19th and 27th and drop off your glass bottles and jars to be recycled! RMBC will donate $1000 to the United Way if we collect over 1000 pounds of glass during this week.

For more information, please contact Tom.Sisnroy@millercoors.com.

Florida

Cliff’s Bar and Grill helps Anchor RECYCLE!

3033 Monument Road
Jacksonville, FL 32225

Anchor Glass in Jacksonville, Florida is coordinating with a local bar and grill in town to encourage recycling efforts. Come out to Cliff’s and have a drink and a bite to eat and your glass container will be recycled!

For more information, please contact Tom.Krawiec@AnchorGlass.com.

Georgia

Anchor Glass Collection Event

1044 Booth Road
Warner Robins, GA 31088

Anchor will be holding a public glass container recycling collection event at their Warner Robins plant during the month of September. Stop by and drop off your glass recyclables!

For more information, please contact Jeff.Gordon@AnchorGlass.com.

Indiana

Anchor Glass Recycling Competition (for local businesses)

603 E. North Street
Winchester, IN 47394

Anchor Glass’ Winchester, IN, manufacturing plant will have a drive to collect post-consumer glass containers supported by the Mayor and local businesses beginning September 8th through Recycle Glass Week, ending on September 25th. Employees at the Winchester plant will keep a tally of the amount of glass container recyclables brought to the plant from each business, and at the end of the week, will make a food donation (packaged in glass containers) toward to the local food pantry totaling the dollars from the glass collected.

For more information, please contact Doug.Podgers@AnchorGlass.com.

Saint-Gobain Containers Sponsors Marsh Kids Club

Saint-Gobain Containers is the Marsh Kids Club Treat of the Week Sponsor from September 17th - 23rd. Children that are Marsh Kids Club Members can redeem their Recycle Glass Week packet, which includes an activity book, coloring sheet, caricature cards and sticker. If your child is not a Marsh Kids Club Member, membership is free.

For more information, please contact Kelsey.Batten@saint-gobain.com or visit Marsh Supermarkets website at www.marsh.net.

Eat, Drink and Recycle!

Special Event - Sept 25th

A special event sponsored by the Glass Packaging Institute and the IRC will showcase a commercial recycling program involving bars and restaurants on the north side of Indianapolis. The program helps divert ten tons of glass every month from the waste stream. Set for Friday afternoon, Sept. 25th, two venues will be toured: the site of a recycling project organized by Green Broad Ripple, and Strategic Materials, a recycled glass processing facility in Indianapolis that receives glass from many recycling programs throughout the state. There is no charge for the event, which will include a hospitality hour at the end of the tour. However, advance registration is required and is limited to the first 30 registrants.

For more information, please contact glassrecycles@gmail.com

New Jersey

Anchor Glass Collection Event

83 Griffith Street
Salem, NJ 08079

Anchor Glass’ Salem, NJ, plant will collect glass on one day during Recycle Glass Week. Drop off your glass recyclables and help the environment! The plant is also getting many of the local retailers involved to help spread the word about recycling. Posters and banners will be placed throughout the community!

For more information, please contact Paul.Camponelli@AnchorGlass.com.

New York

Recycle in NYC’s Madison Square Park

Dates: Saturday, September 19th; Saturday, September 26th

Stop by and recycle your empty glass containers, cans, and plastic bottles for a chance to receive cool prizes!

GPI and TOMRA, a provider of reverse vending machines for collecting and sorting empty beverage containers for recycling, along with VOSS Water, are teaming up in NYC for the Madison Square Park Concert Series, a 5-week series of FREE concerts in the park sponsored by the Madison Square Park Conservancy.

On two Saturdays, September 19th and 26th, GPI and TOMRA representatives, along with Little Bottle, will provide a container recycling kiosk for park visitors to use during the day and at the concerts. And did we mention there’ll be prizes for some lucky recyclers?

Where’s Little Bottle?

Date: Sunday, September 20th

Little Bottle will roam NYC, stopping at celebrated landmarks. If you spot him, stop him. Little Bottle will be posing for pictures, and you could see yours on the GPI website during Recycle Glass Week!

Meet us at the Today Show

Date: Monday, September 21st

It’s been a lifelong dream of Little Bottle’s to meet Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Al Roker and the rest of the Today Show crew. Little Bottle is hoping to make his dreams come true on Monday, September 21st in the outdoor broadcast area of Rockefeller Center. Stop by and say “hi” and help him spread the word about the benefits of glass container recycling.

Anchor Glass Visits Horseheads Mall

151 East McCanns Blvd.
Elmira Heights, NY 14903

Plant employees will have a glass recycling display at the Horesheads mall during Recycle Glass Week. Stop by and check it out.

For more information, please contact Dick.Smiley@AnchorGlass.com.

North Carolina

O-I Glass Collection Event

Welcome, NC

On Wednesday, September 23rd, O-I will set up a glass container recycling station at a local plaza in Welcome, NC, for the public to bring glass. O-I will hold raffles for prizes and will offer hot dogs and drinks for glass recyclers.

For more information, please contact Cheryl.Dawson@o-i.com

Ohio

O-I Glass Collection Event

1700 State Street
Zanesville, OH 43701

O-I will be holding a glass container collection at their plant to properly recycle glass containers. Stop by and drop off you glass recyclables!

For more information, please contact Deborah.Grear@o-i.com

Saint-Gobain Containers Sponsors Marsh Kids Club

Saint-Gobain Containers is the Marsh Kids Club Treat of the Week Sponsor from September 17th - 23rd. Children that are Marsh Kids Club Members can redeem their Recycle Glass Week packet, which includes an activity book, coloring sheet, caricature cards and sticker. If your child is not a Marsh Kids Club Member, membership is free.

For more information, please contact Kelsey.Batten@saint-gobain.com or visit Marsh Supermarkets website at www.marsh.net.

Oklahoma

Anchor Glass Community Collection Event

601 East Bollinger Road
Henryetta, OK 74437

Employees at Anchor’s Henryetta plant will be holding a glass container collection event on the plant site, and will also place collection bins at six other locations throughout the community. You can also meet the glass folks at the Labor Day Parade.

For more information, please contact Rachelle.Day@AnchorGlass.com.

O-I Community Collection Event

2401 Old Shawnee Road
Muskogee, OK 74403

O-I is teaming up with the City of Muskogee to place a city glass drop at the local recycling center. Consumers who bring glass containers to be recyclced will have a chance to win prizes!

For more information, please contact Hubert.Lontzjr@o-i.com.

2009 “Friends of Glass” Announced

Date: Wednesday September 23rd

GPI honors a website, hospitality organization, legislator, community, and best friends of glass for making innovative and significant efforts to promote or participate in glass container recycling. Find out who the honorees are and what they’re doing to make a difference. For More Ways to Participate in Recycle Glass Week, Get our Top 10 List.