Recycled Glass From All 50 States Finds New Life in Connecticut and New York Rail Infrastructure

Pozzotive^® 250 transforms post-consumer glass collected in recognition of America's 250th anniversary into a high-performance, lower-carbon material for both CT DOT and MTA rail projects

BEACON FALLS, Conn., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Recycled glass collected from all 50 states is getting a new life in Connecticut infrastructure as part of the Connecticut Department of Transportation's rail capital improvement program in the Bridgeport-Stratford corridor and in New York as part of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) Metro-North Harlem Line, Southeast Station and Brewster Yards.

The glass from around the country was  transformed into Pozzotive^® 250, a high-performance, lower-carbon ground-glass pozzolan manufactured by Urban Mining CT in Beacon Falls. Developed in recognition of the nation's 250th anniversary, Pozzotive^® 250 demonstrates how a familiar waste material can be repurposed into a resource for the next generation of American infrastructure.

The CT DOT rail capital improvement program's adoption of Pozzotive^® highlights how state agencies, contractors, ready-mix producers, and local manufacturers can work together to advance circular, resilient, and climate forward infrastructure solutions. The project brings together CT DOT as project sponsor, Yonkers Contracting as contractor, O&G Industries as the ready-mix concrete producer and Urban Mining CT as the manufacturer of Pozzotive^® 250.

MTA Construction & Development and Metro-North Railroad have planned multi-phased improvements at Metro-North's Brewster Campus in Putnam County. The Brewster Yard Improvements program will transform the campus into a strategic maintenance facility and transportation hub. The current campus includes Southeast station, customer surface parking lots, the Harlem Line tracks, the existing train storage yard and the Brewster Yard maintenance facility. Byram Concrete is the ready-mix concrete producer incorporating Pozzotive^®250 in this project.

Pozzotive^® is a supplementary cementitious material that can replace up to 50% of traditional cement in concrete. Made from post-consumer recycled glass, it reduces the carbon footprint associated with the cement it replaces while improving concrete durability and helping keep glass out of landfills.

"Pozzotive has demonstrated that incorporating recycled glass into concrete can enhance performance while also obtaining meaningful sustainability objectives," said T.J. Oneglia, Executive Vice President, O&G Industries. "For infrastructure projects like these, strength and long-term durability are critical, and this is a proven material that allows us to produce high-performance concrete while putting a recycled resource to productive use."

"Taking something routinely discarded and turning it into something foundational for our future is exactly what Pozzotive^® was made to do," said Patrick A. Grasso, Co-Founding Partner of Urban Mining Industries. "Seeing recycled glass from across the country become part of Connecticut and New York's mass transit  infrastructure is a fitting way to recognize America's 250th anniversary while demonstrating what practical, scalable innovation can look like."

The use of Pozzotive^® 250 in the Bridgeport-Stratford rail program and the MTA's Southeast Station and Brewster Yards expansion in Southeast, New York, also highlights the role Connecticut and the broader New York metropolitan region manufacturers, contractors, concrete producers, and public agencies can play in advancing more circular and resilient approaches to infrastructure.

Pozzotive^® has been used in hundreds of commercial and infrastructure applications nationwide, including major projects such as the new JPMorgan headquarters in New York City. Its use in Connecticut rail infrastructure represents another application of recycled-glass technology in large-scale construction.

About Urban Mining Industries

Urban Mining Industries is a climate technology and project development company focused on high-performance, low-carbon, circular construction materials. Its flagship product, Pozzotive^®, is a ground-glass pozzolan made from post-consumer recycled glass that partially replaces cement in concrete. Produced at its facility in Beacon Falls, Connecticut, Pozzotive^® delivers a proven, safer, higher-performing material that significantly reduces the embodied CO₂ of concrete while offering a scalable solution to the nation's growing glass waste challenge.

Learn more at www.pozzotive.com.

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SOURCE Urban Mining Industries