Glass Recycling in a Midwest City

A bar industry perspective: part 1

One of the notable aspects of working at a bar is the amount of glass we go through in a single day. Green, brown, red, clear — every kind out there.

So each time I toss a glass bottle into one of the bins at the corner of the bar, I think about how it gets sorted from there. By the end of the night, there is at least 40 pounds of glass to contend with and haul to the bottle room. The beer bottles will get sorted and then returned to the respective distributor. It’s the empty wine and…