Douglas County Transfer Stations to Begin Accepting Glass For Recycling Again
ROSEBURG, Ore. – The Douglas County Board of Commissioners are excited to announce that they are bringing back glass recycling to Douglas County. Effective immediately, seven of our Douglas County Transfer Stations will now be accepting glass items for recycling. Our Douglas County Public Works, Solid Waste Management Division have placed new specially designed glass recycling bins at Douglas County Transfer Stations located near Roseburg, Reedsport, Myrtle Creek, Oakland, Glide, Yoncalla and Canyonville for our residents to recycle glass free of charge. As a reminder, please make sure your glass recyclables are clean, free of debris, free of paper, no caps, no metal lids and not placed in the recycle bins in plastic bags. The return to glass recycling in Douglas County is the result of an ingenious idea developed, researched and implemented by the cooperative efforts of our Douglas County Public Works and Solid Waste Management team. The glass brought to our Transfer Stations will be crushed and repurposed for leachate filtration, as an aggregate substitute and also as foundation support at the Douglas County Landfill. In May of 2018, Douglas County, along with our recycling partners, as well as numerous other manipulates nation-wide, had to curtail our recycling efforts due to the embargo China placed on their recycling purchasing programs with the United States. As noted above, we are excited that we were able to find a creative solution to bring back glass recycling in Douglas County, and we hope to continue to find innovate ways to bring back additional recycling options in the future. As a reminder, we are still accepting tin and aluminum cans, scrap metal, oil and batteries for free. Please check log onto our Douglas County - Solid Waste Webpage for more information about our programs, fees and locations. Douglas County, along with local and regional governments, waste disposal companies, processors and industry representatives continue to work together to find viable alternatives to the recycling issues facing not only Douglas County, but across the nation. Via Douglas County Release Photo Wikimedia Commons