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Bottles of wine. Jars of spaghetti sauce. Jugs of hot sauce. If you live east of the Cascade mountains in Washington state, these used glass containers would likely just end up in your trash. That’s because there’s not a glass recycling facility east of the Cascades so municipal disposal services don’t collect glass.
But thanks to one group, Yakima-area residents can recycle their collected empty containers…