Every single piece of glass in the Lower Mainland that gets properly recycled spends a little time in Abbotsford thanks to Enviro-Corp Recycling.

The company, located at 30 2nd Ave. in the Huntingdon area, was founded in 2006 when parent company United Concrete earned a successful bid for the glass recycling contract for Encorp Pacific.

Clear glass bottles are transformed into cullet and shipped to bottle manufacturers and coloured glass is reused as abrasive grit for sandblasting locomotive traction control in rail yards and water filtration media.

Enviro-Corp has annually processed as much as 60,000 tonnes of glass for reuse, but one problem they encountered during all they work they did was dust. Creating the grit involved pounding glass into small particles and some of that leftover

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