Hundreds of glass jars and empty wine and beer bottles are disposed at Camana Bay’s recycling centre, where they journey through a second life. The bottles are crushed at Dart’s Glass Crushing Facility and sold to entities such as Flowers Block, which mixes the crushed glass material with aggregate to produce concrete pavers like those found on the Community Bike & Walk Trail at Kimpton Seafire.
Local recycler, Junk, supplies much of the glass and aluminum it collects to Camana Bay, which crushes nearly 2,000 pounds of the former and 20 pounds of the latter every day. The glass is used mostly as construction aggregate, in fill or in pavers, building facades and other concrete forms.
Camana Bay continues to go greener, one light bulb and solar panel at a time. Developer Dart Realty is executing a program to replace all the fluorescent light bulbs in the Town Centre with LEDs.
Dart is leading the way in the recycling movement with several programmes in place, including the collection of newspapers, tin cans, aluminium cans and glass bottles.
