Glass is a perfect substance for recycling. Unlike other things such as paper, glass retains all of its qualities and purity after it is recycled. This makes glass a no-brainer for a recycling material. Not only will recycling glass increase space available in landfills, but it will save energy and pollution. Glass can take up to 1 million years to break down in a landfill! This is an unnecessary waste of space in the landfill. When glass is recycled, it is crushed into tiny pieces called cullet. The cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw ingredients used to make new glass. This results in recycled glass using 40% less energy to make glass than using the raw ingredients to make new glass. The decrease in energy needed to melt the cullet also allows for less factory output of pollution. It is a win-win situation! So why is glass in Utah County not recycled as much as paper or plastic? The answer is that there aren’t a lot of readily available places for consumers to take their glass to recycle. In fact, there is no glass recycling center in Utah County!!! That means that if you want to recycle your glass, you have to take it up to Recycle Utah in Park City. Luckily, a recycling drop off center is coming to Provo. It will be located at Parley’s Do it Best Hardware.
Where to Recycle Glass in Utah County:
Parley’s Do it Best hardware (coming soon)
978 West 400 South
Provo,UT 84601
Recycle Utah
1951 Woodbine Way
Park City, UT 84068
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Parley's is now open and does NOT recycle glass. Sorry, but it looks like you'll still have to haul glass up to park city.
i have a friend who lives in west jordan, and there is a large drop off spot for glass near the daybreak subdivision. i saved up all my glass for the year, and i took it up there when i went to visit her. i am heading up there again soon. that's the only other one that i know of.
Target in Orem has a small receptacle near the cafe that is for recycling glass
http://www.republicservices.com/site/utah/en/WeeklyScheduleLibrary/glass.pdf
Here is a map of places in Salt Lake that take it. There must be some closer...
Giant retailer Target has glass drop off kiosks inside all their stores. This means that American Fork and Orem have glass drop off locations now.
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