SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The closure of a large Seattle bottle-making factory interrupted the market, but the county will continue to accept dry and clean glass at county recycling stations, the county confirmed.
WM and Republic Services also will keep taking glass for curbside pickup, the two companies confirmed.
In the summer, the international company Ardagh shut down its Houston and Seattle bottlemaking plants in a consolidation action.
It’s understood the closure upturned the Pacific Northwest glass recycle market.
Skagit County Solid Waste stopped taking glass for recycling Oct. 1, blaming the Seattle plant’s closure.
Republic Services said with the closure, it has begun repurposing glass to be used “as road bed at our Roosevelt Regional Landfill,” which is its privately owned landfill in Roosevelt, Klickitat County.
