Headwaters Cooperative

Recycling glass is a challenge in Montana, but Headwaters Cooperative Recycling ‑ with help from the state and participating local governments ‑ has managed to make a go of it. And that’s a positive for all involved.

The Cooperative’s mobile glass pulverizer is currently at the Butte‑Silver Bow landfill turning 600 tons of stockpiled glass into pulverized granules called cullet. With the sharp edges removed, cullet can be put to a number of uses. Cullet has been successfully used as an alternative to gravel and sand in landscaping, walking paths, pipe bedding, septic sand filter systems, as aggregate in cement walls, blocks, and paving stones, and in road base. Its uses are only limited by our imaginations!

Glass cullet and sand is for sale in Butte by calling Headwaters at 406-443-3101 or emailing us at themanager@headwatersrecycle.com :

• 3/8 inch glass cullet-                             $22.00/Yd or   $17.00/Ton
• Glass Sand  –                                        $21.35/Yd or   $15.25/Ton
• Cost per Pickup load-                            $15.00

Bulk price discount for orders of 100 tons or more 3/8 inch glass cullet $21.00/Yd or $15.00/Ton.

Transportation, washed cullet is also available. Please call for a quote. Samples are available free of cost.

In Helena, the cullet is available at Helena Sand and Gravel and Valley Excavation. (please call them for a price quote.)

The Headwaters programs ‑ and all recycling facilities deserve full community support to help conserve costly landfill space and also make the most of finite natural resources.

So if you’re not in the recycling habit yet, now is the time to start, and you can even make something beneficial while you’re at it.