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Fargo reuses collected glass as filtration layer in inert landfill cells
Summary
City staff say glass was removed from curbside recycling because it damaged sorting equipment; source-separated glass is collected at drop sites and stored at the inert site to be used as a filtration layer in future inert cell construction.
Fargo city staff said the city removed glass from its all-in-one curbside recycling stream after processors reported broken glass damaged sorting operations. Instead, the city now accepts source-separated glass at drop sites and collects it at the landfill's inert site for future reuse as filtration material in inert cells.
"A couple years ago we decided to remove glass from the all-in-one recycling," a Solid Waste Department staff member said, explaining the decision followed processor feedback that broken glass hindered automated sorting. The department collects…
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