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UVI's Glass Crusher Project Ready to Accept Glass Waste for Recycling March 27

Through its Glass Crusher Project, the University of the Virgin Islands announced Tuesday it's gearing up to accept glass waste from the community, to improve recycling efforts in the Virgin Islands. Commencing March 27, the university will host a glass collection effort on the last Saturday of each month at the former West Bay Supermarket parking lot, near UVI, from 9-11am, the institution made known. For years, UVI through its Coastal Cleanup initiatives has picked up glass beverage bottles and other trash that littered Virgin Islands beaches and shores.   The university said it purchased five glass crushers thanks to a $50,000 grant secured from the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands. The glass crushers are capable of turning bottles into sand and smaller glass pieces or cullets that have a variety of uses such as in art, landscaping, ice making, golf course bunkers, pool filtration systems, and high-end sand blasting. The sand can also be used to make asphalt patches for ...