Tri State Resource Recovery to host new glass drop‑off in Evansville, officials say

Tri State Resource Recovery has agreed to host a community glass drop‑off at its Evansville site, Councilwoman Mary Allen told the Vanderburgh County Solid Waste Management District Board. The weekday program, operated in partnership with Recycle Services, accepts glass Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tri State Resource Recovery facility near Bosse Field.

The program is intended to keep glass out of single‑stream recycling, where, Allen said, it currently increases processing costs and is often sent to landfill. "Tri State Resource Recovery gets paid about $10 a ton," Allen said. "It costs our recycle facility about $125 to $150 a ton to process and haul off our glass to the landfill." She urged residents who cannot use the drop‑off to place glass in the trash rather than placing it in single‑stream bins because of that extra processing and transport.

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