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Sense to me to throw it in the garbage. reporter: a metal worker by trade, crapsi spent months of trial and error to produce her own solution: the annihilator. we make a batch. we can crush nine wine bottles in about six seconds. reporter: five years ago, the local government ended its glass recycling program, in part because the newer machines could not sort glass without contamination from food and other recyclable items. even though recycling has increased across the country, glass recycling has decreased over the past decade. i can see how challenging it would be on a larger scale, because it s pretty challenging on even just the small scale. reporter: the glass recycling process can be slow. bottles soak for days to loosen labels for a clean slate. it s tedious, huh? it is. we make it fun, though. yeah, we do. reporter: how do you do that? we have friends over. and we have drinks. ( laughs ) reporter: you re contributing to the pile? yes. reporter: then t ....