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That's surprising to me. By not recycling glass you pay the fuel costs to move that glass to a landfill and you pay the fuel costs to move sand to your glass p
by thefifthsetpin 8y ago
That's surprising to me. By not recycling glass you pay the fuel costs to move that glass to a landfill and you pay the fuel costs to move sand to your glass production facility.
Is the final cost lower just because landfills and sand are everywhere, but recycling facilities are farther away?
- justinator 8y agoI think there's a lot of things to juggle around when trying to figure it out. Here's one situation, though: What's more dense in material: a 10" by 4' by 4' pallet of old jugs, or a 10" by 4' by 4' pallet of sand? I'm saying the latter - we're essentially shipping air as the majority of the material. So, more trucks need to ship the same amount of material. That's just one example.