Can we talk about how my neighborhood's recycling program just stopped taking glass?

Found out last Monday when the truck skipped my bin. Called the city and they said the recycling center isn't accepting glass anymore because it breaks the machines too often. Now I got a stack of jars and bottles in my garage. What do you all do with glass when your local program drops it?

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lily3941mo ago

Honestly, I don't even think glass in recycling was ever that great of a system. Like, you're trucking heavy stuff around for miles, then it still ends up crushed and mixed in with dusty garbage half the time. I just wash my jars and take them to a local brewery that reuses them for growlers. Might be worth checking if any spots near you do that, mine just takes them off my hands for free.

adam_anderson61mo ago

It's funny you say that about trucking glass around, @lily394. That actually reminds me of this time my buddy tried to recycle a bunch of wine bottles and the truck driver wouldn't take them because they were "too clean." Like, what even is the point of rinsing them then, right? We ended up just smashing them in a bucket and using the shards as drainage in some potted plants. Your brewery idea is way smarter than our chaos method though, I might just swipe that tip and see if my local spot does the same. It's wild how much sense it makes to skip the whole wasteful middleman system and just hand stuff straight to someone who can actually use it.

simonmoore5d ago

Nah, even local reuse still takes energy to clean and truck.