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Glass recycling not profitable; Red Oak stops, county continues
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An inmate pulls items out of the glass recycling Friday afternoon at the Hall County Recycling Center. The glass has to be hand-sorted as people place non-glass items in the glass recycling bins at the compactor sites.
One private hauler of recycled materials will quit accepting glass July 1 for economic reasons, but the Hall County Recycling Center continues to process glass. Red Oak Sanitation notified its customers recently it will stop accepting glass in the recyclables July 1. The firm cited information from its processor WestRock “there no longer is a market for mixed glass, and they will no longer be accepting or processing glass.”