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Atlanta Startup Targets 300k Pounds Glass Recycling

8/4/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Grant Wallace and Mark Sayers launched a recycling pickup service in Atlanta.
Wallace founded the business in 2023 after his son Gus raised concerns.
Sayers joined after seeing glass dumped in a landfill and now focuses on glass recovery.
In three years the firm recycled about 30,000 pounds of glass, sending it to the SMI Warehouse in College Park, and now targets 300,000 pounds.

History

Historical Context

In 1976 Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, giving the EPA authority to set national waste-management standards and to promote source reduction and recycling. The law’s early impact paved the way for entrepreneurs Grant Wallace and Mark Sayers, who now run an Atlanta glass-recovery service and are urging the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to expand statewide landfill-diversion policies.

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Story summary

Grant Wallace and Mark Sayers launched a recycling pickup service in Atlanta.
Wallace founded the business in 2023 after his son Gus raised concerns.
Sayers joined after seeing glass dumped in a landfill and now focuses on glass recovery.
In three years the firm recycled about 30,000 pounds of glass, sending it to the SMI Warehouse in College Park, and now targets 300,000 pounds.

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