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Ed Pawlowski

On 9/7/2017 10:22 AM, wrote:

>
> Our city has been big on recycling for years but I am reading now that
> glass is not so great as it once was. It is cheaper for them to make
> new glass bottles than to recycle. So plastic which can go into
> things such as boards for the sun deck, or tshirts, carpets etc. are
> now better
>

Glass is easily recycled and glass makers like it in a lot of mixes.
One problem though, glass is cheap and cannot be economically
transported to the glass plant from a collection place hundreds of miles
away. Glass plant have closed in some areas too due to the plastic
taking over.