Sugar Creek Residents

Over the past several weeks several residents have received harassing phone calls that sound as if they are computer generated.   The voice on the other end is cursing, hateful, and right down scary.  The callers have been tracked to several different locations within the U.S. and shut down inevitably a copy cat picks up and targets a different location.  This appears to be a game and no one has been harmed beyond the phone call, except for the postings on web sites.

The Police Department appreciates your patience&rsquos and understanding as we work diligently to resolve this problem.

 Following is some frequently asked questions on glass recycling. 

Why isn't glass collected in curbside recycling programs?
The short answer, glass breaks. And when it's mixed with other recyclables, broken glass degrades and contaminates those materials, reducing their utility and causing them to be discarded or "downcycled" into lower-quality products. What's more, in most curbside programs in which glass is collected along with other recyclables, over half of the collected glass is unsalvageable, and ends up in the landfill. This leaves two options: sorting and segregating glass in existing recycling trucks, or running dedicated routes for glass. In both cases, the costs outweigh the value of the material, making curbside pickup economically unsustainable.
Do I have to separate glass by color?
No, you don't! All brown, green, blue and clear food and beverage containers can be mixed together in the same collection bin.
Do I need to take the labels off?
No. You can leave all the labels on your containers.
Do I have to rinse the containers?
Well, that would be nice. But it's not essential. You may, however, decide that rinsing the containers keeps your home or garage smelling a bit fresher.
Can I put window glass in the bin? What about Pyrex or old coffee mugs?
Ripple Glass cannot accept plate glass (windows), mirrors, Pyrex, Corning ware, ceramics, or dishes.
They can accept all glass food and beverage containers, of any color (including mason jars).
How do you create a useful product out of what used to be waste material?
Put simplym hard work and technological wizardry. But if you want a little more detail:
It all starts with you and your neighbors, depositing empty glass bottles and jars into those strikingly handsome purple collection bins. When a bin gets full, a local company picks it up, takes it to Ripple Glass, and dumps it into their receiving bunkers. The operators feed the glass onto a conveyor, where it goes through a number of stages: decontamination (removal of all large non-glass materials), an initial crush to reduce whole containers into smaller pieces, drying, optical sorting (the wizardry part), fine grinding (size really does matter) and screening (guaranteeing size distribution matches customer specifications). The finished material furnace-ready cullet, waits in silos to be loaded into trucks for transportation to their customers' nearby facilities.
What is glass cullet?
Glass cullet is the fancy term for glass that is cleaned, crushed and ready to be processed into new products including glass containers, fiberglass, reflective paints, abrasives, aggregates, and more. At Ripple Glass, they turn your recycled glass containers into cullet for a number of local customers, most notably Owens Corning, which uses it to make fiberglass insulation.