Over the past six months, the town has trialed using the region's unwanted glassware to improve its infrastructure.

Given its current success, Lockhart Shire Council has now begun negotiations to take sole delivery of all crushed glass from the Wagga facility.

Lockhart's director of engineering and environmental services, David Webb envisions the project will utilise 5000 to 8000 tonnes of the region's glass waste every year.

"Kurrajong had approached various councils with the problem," said Mr Webb.

"We got thinking about it, that it could actually help us out by saving our own quarries and extending their life."

Aided by a $221,000 grant from the NSW Environment Protection Authority, the council has also been able to purchase a pugmill to convert the crushed glass into a roadworthy gravel-like constitution.

The problem of glass stockpiling had compounded for Kurrajong in recent years, as Riverina Eastern Regional Organisation CEO Julie Briggs explained.

"Especially with Kurrajong's contract within the Container Deposit Legislation, they were having to figure out how to get rid of the glass they were collecting," Ms Briggs said.

"A couple years ago [REROC] supported Kurrajong in getting its crushed glass facilities running, and it was always in mind to do something like this. It just took Lockhart to show the way to do it.

"Lockhart wanted to demonstrate how this could be done and they've made it happen. They've been very persistent in making it happen."

Now that the solution has been floated, Mr Webb is hopeful other council areas will follow suit.

But, since Lockhart Shire has entered contractual agreements to use all of Kurrajong's glass waste, Mr Webb said prospective copycats will have to look further afield.

"You don't want to be transporting it from too far, because that increases the cost," he said.

"But there's that much glass around the country, there's just mountains of it. It's not in a shortage definitely."

The process has been trialed on both sealed and unsealed roads around the shire for the past 12 months.

Now being implemented fully, the program makes Lockhart the third council area in the state to adopt the waste reuse strategy.

"I don't know of any other councils in the southern region doing something like this, but it shows just how innovative small councils can be in this area," Ms Briggs said.

"I think people look at small councils and think they aren't capable of big change. Lockhart proves the are.

"They're the first council in the region to take this seriously."

The trials also brought to light a unique problem in the way that the EPA classifies glass for this purpose.

"The EPA still views it as waste, even when it's been used to fill roads," Ms Briggs said.

"So they see it as stockpiled and transported waste even though it looks very much like sand."

Because of its classification as waste, there remains restrictions on where and how it can be transported.

"That's something we'd like to see changed. Waste products that have been reprocessed should be seen as resources and therefore subject to those costings," Ms Briggs said.