SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): The City of Mount Airy has stopped accepting glass for recycling. The formal announcement about the change in recycling was announced by City Manager Stan Farmer at a meeting of the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners held last Thursday.

Accordingly municipal staff has urged sanitation customers not to put glass into recycling containers, since it will no longer be collected and sorted as part of the recycling stream. Instead of dropping them in blue receptacles used for recycling purposes, the customers are required to put them in normal trash.

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The decision to phase out glass for recycling has been mainly on account of economic factors. The market value of the material too had registered significant decline over the past few years. Also, the higher weight of glass materials tend to burden compactor trucks. Above all, the problems from breakage of glass materials make it difficult to handle.

The City of Mount Airy had launched single-stream curbside recycling in January 2012, allowing its residents to place all items into containers without having them to be separated. After nearly seven years, the city stopped getting paid for the recycled materials it generated. Moreover, it was forced to pay Foothills Sanitation and Recycling for collecting and processing recyclables.