Answer: Salt Lake County’s local Material Recycling Facility (MRF) is unable to source-separate and process glass at their facility. Glass is very difficult to remove (think needles in a haystack) once the small shards find their way into the mixed recyclables – which then devalues the recycled commodities later when resold into the market. Glass also breaks fairly easily, and tends to then become very sharp, posing a significant risk to the person that handles and/or sorts the material. Lastly, when source-separated, more glass is captured in the process and able to be recycled.