March 6

A new glass recycling plant could save five Toronto-area municipalities $10 million over the next seven years.

Stewardship Ontario and Canadian glass recycler Unical Inc. have worked out a deal to build a glass processing plant in the greater Toronto area. The facility will recycle glass bottles and jars collected in the cities of Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, and the regions of Peel, York and Durham. Stewardship Ontario is an industry-funded group created to develop a waste diversion program for the province.

The group has given $1.75 million to Unical to buy processing equipment. The five municipalities stand to save $10 million in operating costs over seven years, the length of the existing contract. They will supply a minimum of 48,000 tons of mixed glass collected from their blue box curbside recycling programs.

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