BFI is now telling us they won't recycle
glass. Is there anything we can do
about that? When is their contract up?

glass recycling

I too was disappointed that BFI was allowed to stop accepting glass. The company's rationale was safety issues. One can appreciate that shards of broken glass are dangerous to the collectors' safety, but one would think they'd be supplied with safety goggles and other equipment. I'd like to know if Circle C is going to make a central location available to residents to use, that either BFI or some other entity would collect from. Recycling is a very important issue to many of us here, but so is saving gas. It would be counterproductive for each resident to have to drive miles to bring their glass to a downtown facility.

recycling glass

I think ''safety issue'' is just a convenient excuse.

I think it really boils down to whether
it is profitable for BFI or not.

Its really a symptom of the bigger issue
how how recycling is perceived in this (and other) states.

For example, in many northern states and
all of Canada, breweries collect and
re-use their beer bottles. They are
not recycled (as in turning the bottles
back into raw material) but merely
cleaned and refilled. A deposit is
paid on the bottles & refunded when you
return the bottles.

Why isn't that done here?

What's happened is...

It is not profitable for BFI to recycle glass. I was also told that the City of Austin does not recycle glass either. Only place I know is on 5th & Red River and I saw a new place on 620 not far from 71.

What BFI IS RECYCLING which I think is great is PAPER.

All kind of paper. Cardboard, computer paper, cereal boxes, corrugated boxes, show boxes, Junk mail ALL JUNK MAIL. Which we NEED a collection spot at the mailboxes. Has anyone else but me notices all the paper CCR throws away each day? We could be the flagship community. Back to paper. All envelopes, check stubs except NO FOOD PAPER. NOTHING WITH FOOD ON IT.