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Plant manager Ryan Gregor holds handfuls of crushed glass at the Burlington County recycling facility in Westampton. All the crushed glass produced there goes to AeroAggregates, which uses it to create glass foam like that used to patch a fire-damaged portion of I-95 in Philadelphia.


P. KENNETH BURNS, WHYY NEWS | JULY 6, 2023

Much has been said about the fill material  propping up the temporary lanes built after the I-95 collapse. Particularly, how the material, which looks like a wall of pumice stone, is made of processed, recycled glass.

To be clear, no one is driving over broken glass jars or beverage bottles.

Eddystone, Pa.-based AeroAggregates sourced the refill substance from a New Jersey plant.

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For the past four years, Burlington County has provided more than 7,000 tons of glass to AeroAggregates to make their foam glass material.

Burlinton County Commissioner Tom Pullion stands before piles of crushed glass at the county recycling facility in Westampton.

“We wouldn’t have this type of recycled material available if our residents didn’t take the time to sort [it] out and recycle,” said Burlington County Commissioner Deputy Director Tom Pullion. Overall, he adds, more than 84 million pounds of recyclable material — cardboard, glass, and plastic — has been kept out of landfills.

Pullion said the county and AeroAggregates have had a working relationship for the past several years.

“It’s been going quite well to the point that we manufacture approximately 10% of their total [amount of materials] for the year,” Pullion said.

The county collects recycling from all 40 of its municipalities.

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