Why isn glass accepted in most recycling programs in Mississippi?
The market for glass containers for Mississippi is in Texas and Georgia. Very simple, the transportation cost to ship the glass to these glass manufacturing facilities is generally more than what they receive for the material. So many programs and recycling facilities have dropped glass collection from their programs. In addition, if the three different color grades of glass are mixed together, it is almost impossible to find a buyer for mixed cullet (glass). Finally, more programs in the nation are collecting all the recyclable materials together in one compactor truck at the curb rather than separating them on the truck. This helps save money, but also hurts glass recycling because glass can often contaminate the paper since it can break and imbed into the paper. This can be a major contamination problem at paper mills.
