Comments on: Truth About Glass Recycling

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:28 +0000

Are the lids from glass jars recyclable?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:09 +0000

@Scott Cottrill: I think it should be illegal for MRFs to send a recyclable to a landfill because it would be too expensive to transport it. Consumers (who are paying for recycling through taxes or monthly fees) expect that the service they are paying for will properly dispose of the materials. This sounds like the scandal with e-cycling, where e-waste was sent to dumps in China instead of being properly recycled.

I think we should push for a law forbidding landfilling at an MRF for reasons like “the closest glass recycler is too far away”

By: American Beverage Association

American Beverage Association — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:59:08 +0000

Thanks for bringing attention to the important topic of recycling glass – a great recyclable resource with many uses.

One thing to note, however, is that rather than adding additional costs to beverages by enacting a bottle bill, we should focus on comprehensive recycling that addresses all recyclables. Strong curbside programs can be of far more value to residents – and the environment – than any bottle bill.

Importantly, beverage containers are 100 percent recyclable. If we can recycle all recyclable items like newspaper, cardboard, laundry detergent containers, shampoo bottles, just to name a few, then we will be able to make a real difference.

And by doing this with curbside drops we make it more convenient for people to recycle and reuse more of the materials in our everyday lives. By working together to recycle all that we can, we can make a brighter tomorrow for our families and a greener tomorrow for our planet.

The true value of recycling is in helping the environment, and again, we thank you for bringing attention to this important subject. For more information on recycling, please visit http://www.ameribev.org/minisites/recycling.

-American Beverage Association

By: AparfAwambTar

AparfAwambTar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:07:40 +0000

What more can i say
Before anything i’d like to say i reside in New York
Should i get my stamped concrete or Decorative concrete.

Any insight is apperciated

By: Charlene

Charlene — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:43:27 +0000

Have any of you heard of “VETRAZZO” ?? it is a product used for kitchen and bathroom counter tops. Check out ‘vetrazzo.com’. They use small peices of glass in concrete to create a beautiful product. There are several choices, clear glass imbedded in concrete made from clear bottle glass, green and brown in concrete fron brown and green bottles, blue from b lue bottles, etc. The glass can also be used as a binder in the concrete. This seems to me to be another alternative for glass recycling. (I do Stained Glass and have an island top made from my “recycled’ glass’ )

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:53:16 +0000

Is there a profit to be made in recycling glass or pallets for that matter any material. This is the way the public thinks more profit more recycling. I live in Midland,Tx. and all we have is places for metals.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:48:16 +0000

I really like Nancy’s attitude. Recycling isn’t offered, so she takes it where it is offered. I did the same for years in Atlanta before the city started curbside recycling. It was no big deal, just part of my routine. I think if we buy something, then we must be responsible for finding a way to recycle the packaging, whatever it is. If we don’t, then we’re just passing the problem along to future generations. The problem with too many of us Americans is we’ve had too much excess for too long and now we’re fat, spoiled and apathetic.

I used to have a business in Atlanta. There was a room with several soft drink machines, but no recycling bin. I asked the building manager about it but she said there was no place to put it, so I made one out of a cardboard box with a hole on top and a garbage liner. I sat it in the hall by the rear door that led to the drink room. I collected the cans and took them home to recycle even though I don’t drink sodas myself. I was completely mystified to constantly find empty cans and bottles in the garbage can that sat right beside my recyle bin. It was well marked but people couldn’t even get that right even though I did most of the work for them. I suppose many people won’t get it until we have another crisis.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:54:26 +0000

I agree with Laura. We should go back to the return bottle system. When I was a kid, that’s how we made extra money, by collecting bottles and selling them back to the store at a few cents each. Consumers paid a bottle deposit on each full bottle of soda and it was paid back when we returned the bottles. Many lazy people, just like today, threw them away, so we collected the cast offs and returned them for pocket money. I think Coke and Pepsi realized they could maximize profits by putting their products in cheap light weight aluminum cans and plastic bottles. This eliminated their cost of processing all those heavier returned glass bottles. It was a great system that worked well, but was abandoned in favor of more profits.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:09:58 +0000

Reading Steve’s post reminds me of growing up back in Ohio when we would go to a soda-pop bottling company to make our purchases and bring back with us the cases of empty glass bottles that would be sterilized and re-used again and again and again. Why aren’t bottling companies doing this any longer? I can also remember my parents returning glass bottles to the local grocery store. We put them into a bin and I can remember watching them go along a belt into a wash room where they were cleaned before sterilizing for re-use. It seems as if America has gone backwards? If we did things more environmentally back in the late 70s why can’t we do it like that again today? Cost savings per case of soda/beer aside – it just makes more sense to bring those bottles back!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:08:48 +0000

Would any of you pay $8 less for a case of beer, or perhaps your favorite bottled soda. If we lived in Mexico this would be the case. In Mexico rather than being wasteful and using more energy and creating more greenhouse gases with production and reproduction, the glass is simply collected when you purchase another case, then cleaned and sterilized and then a new beverage is placed in the bottle and resealed. This is about as efficient as the process gets and instead of the .05 cent deposit you get in California you would simply pay $8 less for a 20 pack of beer. Are we as Americans really that rich or would you choose to bring your bottles back if there was $8 bucks a case in it for you.