Special # 12 | Ripple Glass Glassware Recycling Program
Please read more about Ripple Glass here.
This video may seem a bit out of place in the middle of Christmas season. In fact, you can tell I recorded this back in the early part of autumn. I never found the right time to post it, so today will be where it lands. It’s for a project I feel very happy to be able to participate in. It’s called Ripple Glass, and it’s a project that Boulevard Brewing worked on with Owens Corning in order to recycle all the glass Kansas City citizens were usingand turning it into insulation. I won’t go into too much detail since I’ve provided a link above for you to read more. The only thing I’d like to add is that I hope you’ll talk to your breweries in your area to see if they can do something like this. Every bit helps and this is proof it can be done.
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Posted by Dan on December 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM
I am always happy to see local recycling projects like this. Coming from Oregon, recycling is second nature to me. I was in Nevada last summer and was at a loss when I couldn’t find any place to recycle my bottles.
Posted by thehopry on December 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM
It’s amazing how well people have responded to this here. It seems like every time I go to drop off bottles the bins are nearly full. And these are HUGE bins.
Posted by Big Mike on December 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM
They don’t have weekly recycling pick up at your house out there?
Posted by thehopry on December 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM
“Did you know only 5% of Kansas City residents recycle glass? The main reason… Kansas City curbside recycling doesn’t include glass, and the few metro drop off locations are somewhat inconvenient for the majority of us.
The honcho’s down out Boulevard Brewery realized that not only were their beer bottles taking up a significant chunk of local landfills, but Kansas City needed a better recycling initiative. The solution: Ripple Glass.”
Read more here:
http://kansascity.about.com/b/2009/10/20/ripple-glass-to-change-kc-recycling.htm
Posted by Big Mike on December 18, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Duh
…. Next time I’ll read said link before asking questions. Thanks Mark.
Posted by Chris (aka BeaverC32) on December 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM
This video seems out of place, but I think it is because I live in NY and bringing bottles back is just as natural as, say, grocery shopping. We get charged 5 cents for every bottle we purchase(more on the larger containers), so we sure have an incentive to recycle/return bottles regularly.