A local recycling company is partnering with RoadRunnerApp delivery service to expand pickup routes for glass recyclables in Lafayette Parish.

BackYard Sapphire, a grassroots effort at glass recycling and owned by Tina Crapsi and Dawn Vincent, will partner with the delivery service for customers looking to have glass items picked up from their home to be recycled. The service will start Thursday, Crapsi and Vincent announced.

Glass items can be recycled to create beach- and pebble-sized mulch or crushed into sand, which Lafayette Consolidated Government is now using to fill sandbags.

Read the rest of Adam Daigle’s article for the Advocate here.