Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:56:40 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On 14 Aug 2024 17:35:55 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

>

An older news report (5 years ago, all I could easily find) among other
things says:
  The issue is that glass comes in many colors and often breaks,
  making it too difficult to separate from other materials. Plus,
  there isn=92t as big of a market for recycled glass, compared to
  other products, such as cardboard and plastics.
https://wtop.com/local/2019/05/trashed-can-the-dc-area-clean-up-its-wast>>e-problem/

>
As others have noted, traditionally, glass bottles have been /reused/,
not recycled. The whole deposit folderol is based on reuse.
>
Here in Seattle, broken glass is garbage. At least some intact glass
objects are recyclable, IIRC (I don't have occasion to get rid of
intact glass objects very often, so it's been a while since I
checked).

>
Whereas I just placed a glass juice jar in the recycling bin
this morning.

Actually, thinking about it overnight, it occurred to me that my
strawberry preserves still come in a glass jar. It not very large or
very heavy, however. So I do regularly dispose of one glass object in
the recycle bin. Washed, dried, and lid attached [1].

The mustard used to do the same, but a while back (5 yrs? 10?) it went
to plastic.

[1] I tend to stress this because, until 10 or 15 or so years ago lids
could only be recycled if they were ferrous metal or larger than 3
inches (something to do with jamming the grinders). Bottle caps were
not at all. But then lids/caps still attached to the bottle/jar became
recyclable regardless of size. Whether this represented any particular
/desire/ to process them or whether it was just to keep them from
messing up the grinders by being attached to something larger I have
no idea.
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