Remember when Tacoma put a pause on glass recycling ? That period is now over.
The city has partnered with Portland-based company, Glass to Glass , to resume sending glass collected at drop-off locations to recycling plants following “a thorough environmental and economic analysis,” according to a city news release Thursday. The change is effective Jan. 2.
On Sept. 24, the city announced that all collected glass would head to the landfill for the time being because of “unexpected changes in the international glass market.” The city’s former glass-recycling processor, Strategic Materials Inc., was facing low demand and could no longer accept glass for recycling, city spokesperson Maria Lee told The News Tribune at the time.
The newspaper also learned that a glass-manufacturing facility in Seattle called Ardagh, which formerly bought crushed glass processed by Strategic Materials, was facing unfavorable market conditions for its U.S.-produced glass. Ardagh, a global bottle and container manufacturer, laid off 244 workers at its Seattle location effective July 1, The Seattle Times reported .