In 2002, Idaho crushed almost 300 tons of bottles and jars into gravel-sized cullet and buried it in an 8-to-12-inch layer beneath roughly 200 feet of Highway 75 near Ketchum, using the glass as fill during a project that included a new 178-foot bridge

In 2002, Idaho crushed almost 300 tons of bottles and jars into gravel-sized cullet and buried it in an 8-to-12-inch layer beneath roughly 200 feet of Highway 75 near Ketchum, using the glass as fill during a project that included a new 178-foot bridge

For about 200 feet of an Idaho Highway 75 rebuild in 2002, discarded glass became part of the material beneath the road. Almost 300 tons went into the fill during a $5.6 million project that also replaced a narrow three-span crossing over the Big Wood River with a two-span bridge 178 feet long, designed to […]