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On Fri, 23 May 2025 16:57:57 +0000, Stephen Fuld wrote:

> On 5/23/2025 8:17 AM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 May 2025 14:21:57 +0000, John Levine wrote:
>>
>>> According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:
>>>>>> Don’t you have regulations, or at least discouragements, against e-
>>>>>> waste
>>>>>> going to landfill?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, in the last two decades.   A quarter century ago, not so much.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is 'Murica, pretty much everything goes in the trash here...
>>>>
>>>> Nonsense.
>>>
>>> It's sort of true. In my town they pick up paper and containers and yard
>>> waste
>>> at the curb but I have to take electronics down to the recycling dump.
>>> Most
>>> people don't bother.
>>
>> In Austin we have recycling, but at the sorting department, recycled
>> glass is diverted straight to the garbage dump.
>
> Interesting.  I thought glass was supposed to be the easiest thing to
> recycle. Perhaps separate clear from colored, then just melt it down and
> reuse.

It is, Austin just does not have any glass factories nearby and shipping
eliminates any gain.