Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On 2024-08-16, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

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

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

Interesting. In our area, lids/tops can be recycled but they need to be
separated from the jar or bottle, even if both are plastic. Different
sorts of plastics are recycled separately.

Chris