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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:27:02 -0700
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:56:40 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

>Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>>On 14 Aug 2024 17:35:55 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
>
>>>An older news report (5 years ago, all I could easily find) among =
other
>>>things says:
>>>   The issue is that glass comes in many colors and often breaks,
>>>   making it too difficult to separate from other materials. Plus,
>>>   there isn=3D92t as big of a market for recycled glass, compared to
>>>   other products, such as cardboard and plastics.
>>>https://wtop.com/local/2019/05/trashed-can-the-dc-area-clean-up-its-wa=
st=3D
>>e-problem/
>>
>>As others have noted, traditionally, glass bottles have been /reused/,
>>not recycled. The whole deposit folderol is based on reuse.
>>
>>Here in Seattle, broken glass is garbage. At least some intact glass
>>objects are recyclable, IIRC (I don't have occasion to get rid of
>>intact glass objects very often, so it's been a while since I
>>checked).
>
>Whereas I just placed a glass juice jar in the recycling bin
>this morning.

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].

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

[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.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"