On 7/18/2017 1:00 AM, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:09:39 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 7/17/2017 1:12 PM, wrote:


Recycling is just a make work program for people unqualified to do
anything else. The only thing that actually have a cash value is
aluminum cans in most places. Paper and plastic ends up costing more
to ship than it is worth and the environmental impact is usually worse
too. Glass is really totally useless.

Why is glass useless? It may not be economically sensible to ship glass
scrap very far, but the glass plant near us used every bit they could
get. They made mostly bottles and jars.

Clear glass may be good for jars but mixed, colored glass is not
useful for much except maybe brown beer bottles and they seem too
uniform to be using much in the way of other colors.
I agree, if you can hit the glass plant throwing your empty, it may be
worth recycling them but trucking glass half way across the country is
not.


Clear glas must be clear. When our town started recycling at the dump
they has a container for clear, another for colored. One colored bottle
would contaminate a big container of clear. There was always some
idiot. . .

I've been told the best glass has some content of recycled in it.
http://www.gpi.org/recycling/glass-recycling-facts

Never thought about it going into fiberglass but they take it too.