Ripple Glass Exceeds Goals for Glass Bottle Recycling in Kansas City
The Kansas City Star reports Ripple Glass in Kansas City is on track to exceed its first-year glass bottle collection goals and is already planning updates to its glass processing plant so more beer bottles—the company’s biggest glass recycling commodity—and other glass bottles and jars can be endlessly recycled. The company is also preparing to launch an initiative to collect bottles from bars and restaurants. “About half the glass in the area comes out of bars and restaurants,” said Jeff Krum, Ripple principal and co-founder. “That’s a big, untapped market for us.”
The original goal for Ripple’s first year was 6,500 tons of glass, but the company now hopes that number will be in the 8,000 to 10,000 ton range. Glass bottles and jars are collected at about 70 drop off locations in the metro area. According to Ripple, 8,000 tons would be only about 10% of the glass containers in Kansas City that could be recycled. More
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