County moves toward removing glass from single-stream recycling

Removing glass from Shawnee County’s single-stream recycling operation will bring the county a slight financial gain while allowing for more glass to be recycled and not wasted, county solid waste department director Bill Sutton told commissioners Monday.

Commissioners Bill Riphahn, Kevin Cook and Aaron Mays subsequently took a step toward removing glass from that stream.

They voted 3-0 to authorize the solid waste department to seek quotes from companies interested in designing and building a 75-foot-by-50-foot concrete pad and a 25-foot-by-25-foot precast block bunker at the county’s north annex at 1515 N.W. Saline.