• substill
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    1 year ago

    If I remember right, glass is extremely efficient in recycling.

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      1 year ago

      If it is recycled. But the profit motive isn’t there, so in a lot of places it simply isn’t. In Canada’s second largest city, it all goes to landfill, and they don’t even have a bottle return system yet.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Conversely, many places have stopped accepting glass for recycling because they have huge backlogs and broken glass presents a significant danger to recycling staff.