It was in 2002 that a glut of old glass bottles, mirrors and windows became the source for this chic green twist to the classic flooring concept. Publicity in July about the Texas city of Plano’s overabundance of crushed recycled glass inspired the creative solution of combining the multi-colored crystals with epoxy resin to create recycled glass Terrazzo.
It was a perfect match. The city of Plano already had a glass crusher machine that could tumble the glass trash into usable aggregate. Partner American Terrazzo donated installations to renovate flooring in the City of Plano’s high-traffic public works building and the headquarters of their recycler, Trinity Waste Services. Both projects were stunning, and EnviroGLAS received the Recycling Alliance of Texas’s 2003 “Closing the Loop Program” award.
Glass aggregate from area recycling program now graces floors in numerous north Texas buildings and beyond. In 2004, EnviroGLAS Principal Tim Whaley received a U.S. patent for the “method of making a terrazzo surface from recycled glass”. Whaley, aka “Scrappy”, estimates that EnviroGLAS will divert close to one million pounds of glass from landfills in 2005. EnviroGLAS is a privately owned profitable company based in Plano, Texas.
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