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[Cakers3]

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@SandySparkles wrote:

@Tinkrbl44 We are no longer allowed to recycle glass as part of home pick-up as of a few months ago, and I do not know why, but can still take it to our local recycling centers where glass is accepted!🥰

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@SandySparkles  Hi SandySparkles

It could be because sometimes items will fall out of the bin and onto the ground when the bin is being emptied.  The glass broken on the ground would become a hazard.

We can put clean glass and plastic containers in our recycling bins along with cardboard (liners removed from cereal boxes etc.) along with clean metal cans.

Once in a while an item will fall onto the ground and we just put it back for next week's pickup.

Also broken glass arriving at the recycling center is a work hazard.

[Tinkrbl44]

Not trying to derail my own thread, LOL, but ..........

I heard an interview on NPR recently about recycling plants. 

Did you know that working in these plants, statistically, is one of the 7 most dangerous jobs in America?  

[Cakers3]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

Not trying to derail my own thread, LOL, but ..........

I heard an interview on NPR recently about recycling plants. 

Did you know that working in these plants, statistically, is one of the 7 most dangerous jobs in America?  

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@Tinkrbl44  Of course.  Broken glass, metal shards, machinery used, the repetitious movement sorting through etc 

Not to mention the disgusting people who toss in dead animals, used hypodermic needles, pet waste and dirty diapers.

Physical and health hazards.

[Isobel Archer]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

Not trying to derail my own thread, LOL, but ..........

I heard an interview on NPR recently about recycling plants. 

Did you know that working in these plants, statistically, is one of the 7 most dangerous jobs in America?  

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I'm currently reading the book Cradle to Cradle which talks about the dangers of recycling things that were never created to be recycled in the first place and thus cause more damage to the environment that we can imagine.

The wind turbine/solar panels/lithium batteries situation was scary enough, but now this?

[homedecor1]

we are not allowed to put glass in our recycles.  I put them in regular trash.

@Tinkrbl44 

[CalminHeart]

Our recycle containers take most glass. If yours don't, call your garbage collection office and find out where the closest glass dumpster is located. We have a lot of places around the metro for metal and glass.

[Trailrun23]

Our city won't take bags of any kind except paper bags that are cut open so they are flat; no envelopes unless they  have the sides cut or torn open so they are flat.  I do recycle pickle or mayo jars, etc, since I can rinse them out, but candle jars must have no wax residue so I just toss those in the garbage; some of my prettier ones I use for cotton balls in the guest bath. The reason is that almost everything except plain glass and flat, non-shiny paper will clog the machine on the truck. Haven't figured out why plastic shampoo bottles are okay. Don't worry about the glass breaking as it will shatter as soon as it goes into the truck; I just roll them in newsprint or brown paper long

enough to place carefully into the bin; I don't want broken glass in my bin.

It would be nice if their was a standard that everyone followed; I know a vast % of recycled items end up in landfills, yielding hardly anything usable for reuse.

[willdob3]

@Tinkrbl44  I started recycling way back in the Stone Age when I was a teen.

But, after China stopped taking our recycling, and not being able to get a straight answer from the local recycling companies, I stopped. I'm pretty sure it is all or almost all ending up in landfills. 

[debfau]

In Northern VA, we can't put glass in our recycle bins, we have to take to place with "Purple" bins. The majority of the glass collected in these containers will be sent to a glass processing facility where it will be recycled into new glass containers.

Glass containers placed in curbside recycling bins breaks during collection and transport to recycling sorting centers. Broken glass contaminates bales of other more valuable recycled items, such as cardboard and metals.

We have been told that we can put pizza boxes that might have some food still on it in with our recycle, once at the recycle facility it will get cleaned off the cardboard.