By Jared Paben Resource Recycling
A company working to build a post-consumer glass sorting facility in New Jersey has failed, and its equipment is being auctioned. Meanwhile, environmental regulators are suing the business over contaminated glass piles.
Pace Glass, which already operated a small glass recycling facility in Jersey City, N.J., has been working since 2018 to build what was originally described as a $90 million facility to sort and clean up post-consumer glass for use by bottle producers and other manufacturers.
The facility, in the small central New Jersey borough of Andover, was supposed to be big enough to take much of the glass generated by MRFs in the Northeast region. The construction company working on the project described it as the “world’s largest glass recycling plant with a production capacity of more than 15,000 tons of commercial-grade recyclable glass per week.”
Now, the company has closed and equipment is being sold at court-ordered auctions to pay back creditors, documents obtained by Resource Recycling show.
Additionally, Pace Glass is being sued by the New Jersey authorities.
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