Glass is a recycling nightmare. Here's one city's solution

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The city of Charlotte ships its glass waste nearly 250 miles to Atlanta for recycling. The nonprofit Envision Charlotte is changing that with its Crush Truck, a mobile glass crusher that can process 4–5 tons of bottles a day on-site into particles for cement. See how a partnership with Concrete Supply Co. aims to build a circular economy by turning local glass waste into local concrete.

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