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New Glass Recycling Business Highlights Community-based Solutions

posted Mar 30, 2011 2:38 PM by Green Starkville Admin

From GGSIM March newsletter


Magnolia Recycled Glass Company (MRGC) is the first community based glass recycling business in Mississippi. MRGC is owned and operated by Samuel Leggett (GGSIM BOD) and Ketan Patel, both graduate and undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students at Mississippi State University. MRGC will purchase used container glass for recycling from the Starkville community at a rate of around $0.08 cents per bottle. The glass will be weighed and a bulk rate applied. If the glass is sorted by color MRGC will pay a higher rate for some colors. MRGC will also purchase corrugated card board boxes and clean newspapers in limited quantities to use for packaging materials.
Magnolia Recycled Glass Company will process this material into high end glass products and offer them for sale to the community. The initial product offering will be of glass tiles to be used in new construction and remodeling projects. The glass tiles will contain 100% post consumer recycled glass obtained from the community. This will prevent that material being introduced to the local landfills and create a beautiful architectural product that will have a virtually infinite useful life. 
We will create at least 4 new jobs in the community, 2 paying $60,000 dollars annually, and 2 paying $40,000 dollars annually. MRGC will directly pay over $3000 dollars per ton directly into the community for the used glass. The process generates zero waste and reduces the amount of solid non-hazardous waste in the community waste stream. The recycled glass market is predicted to be a non-growth market for the next 15 to 20 years. However, through zero length supply chain management and intensive engineering control the community benefits from a readily available product and an economic incentive to recycle. We plan to investigate other materials and methods in an ongoing manner to offer additional 100% post consumer recycled products to the community. MRGC is a for profit company demonstrating that sustainability is inherently profitable. 
MRGC hopes to open the doors to the public and begin receiving glass materials as soon as September of 2011. This is an original company and is completely dedicated to finding recycling solutions for the waste generated on the community level. This will be the ONLY glass tile product in the United States that is 100% post consumer content.

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