94-29 165th St. Jamaica, NY, 11433
Our Facilities
Each of EWG Glass’ seven locations facilitates a different and important step in the glass recycling process.
Decasing Facility
Sorting Facility
107-28 180th St. Jamaica, NY 11433
At this facility, EWG takes all the mixed glass from the reversed vending machines and sorts it by color: green, flint and amber. All contaminants such as paper, rings and metal bottle caps are removed during this process.
Crushing Facility
94-54 158th St. Jamaica, NY 11433
At this location, EWG takes the sorted glass and individually crushes it down to furnace ready cullet. Any contaminants that are left over are taken out such as paper labels and plastic. The glass is processed to a size fit for furnace ready cullet that is then able to be brought to the mills.
Trans-Load Location
87-69 Lefferts Blvd. Richmond Hill, NY 11418
Once the glass is crushed down it is ready to be transported. EWG transports glass to the mills by truck or rail. At our trans-load location, glass is shipped across the country and down south to be melted down into new bottles or jars.
Portable Crusher
Trans-Continental
EWG provides a portable crusher on-site to different mills across the country. The process is the same as our crushing facility. This portable machine crushes any broken, reject or extra glass on site of the mills in order to be used in the furnace.
Abrasives Facility
49 Pinedale Industrial Road, Orwigsburg, PA 17961
This location is an abrasives facility where glass that can’t be sold back to the bottle industry is used for other purposes. All the contaminants are taken out of the glass and grinded to a fine size. It is then bagged and sold to the boating/auto industries and the military to be used for sand blasting. Abrasives, sand blasts and other filter media are produced from this fine, grinded glass.
Truck Depot
157-17 Liberty Ave Jamaica, NY 11433
The Truck Depot is where EWG Glass parks its roll-off trucks, rendering trucks, tractor trailers, box trucks and damage control service trucks. These trucks are essential to the business and each play a role in the different steps of recycling
glass.
