On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:20:42 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

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.

That does not change the fact that most glass in "recycle bins" gets
sent to the land fill. We don't sort ours before we set it on the
curb, creating make work jobs for a bunch of low skilled workers and I
think they burn everything but the metal. They were just shipping it
to the landfill until the paper got wind of that. This is a boondoggle
all around because the indians get the first shot at the electricity
coming out of the waste to energy plant at a nickel a KWH for their
reservations and casinos. Granted we are 500-1000 miles away from any
reprocessing plants for just about any recyclable. Even the scrap
value of metal has dropped to the point that we do not have
"scrappers" anymore. It used to be that any piece of metal you set on
the curb was gone in a day. Now they don't even come for copper and
aluminum.