Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On 16 Aug 2024 16:56:01 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

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.

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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.

That's one of the problems with recycling plastic: the finished
product may have different types which are hard to separate.

And, while lids/tops would qualify, the article I read on this was
talking about the /mixed/ plastics being use to make the object (jar,
bottle, table, whatever) itself.

IOW, resolving some plastics to their original form is very difficult
because there are two or more mixed together that need to be separated
in order to be made re-usable.
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