Crushed Glass To Be Spread On Beaches

"Basically, what we're doing is taking the material and returning it back to its natural state," said Phil Bresee, Broward's recycling manager. The county would become the first in the nation to combine disposal of recycled glass with bolstering beach sand reserves, Bresee said. "You reduce waste stream that goes to our landfills and you generate materials that could be available for our beaches," said Paden Woodruff of the state Department of Environmental Protection. Sand is a valuable commodity in South Florida, where beach-related business generates more than $1 billion a year for Broward alone. Sand to replenish eroded beaches is typically dredged from the ocean floor and piped to shore , about 13 million tons of it since 1970 in Broward. That's enough sand to fill the Empire State Building more than 12 times over. Article's URL: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/247-08262007-1398090.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 31, 2007]

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