At a press conference this morning, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced a partnership with Strategic Materials Inc., the nation’s largest glass recycling company—which just so happens to be headquartered in Houston—to add 10 more drop-off locations in the next two and a half weeks. Right now, there are nine drop-off locations across the city, all of which are also managed by Strategic Materials.

"The one piece that’s not a part of the deal with Waste Management is glass recycling, and we recognize that’s an important piece,” said Turner. “Right now we’re under a two-year contract with Waste Management, but between now and the end of this contract period we’ll be working on a robust recycling program that will be better than before. But in the meantime, we’re trying to address the issue of glass recycling since that was not part of the deal.”