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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite
Date: 16 Aug 2024 16:56:01 GMT
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On 2024-08-16, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>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.

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.

Chris