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Also, hardly ever do you get the thing you started with. Clear glass bottles are not recycled into more clear glass bottles. IIRC the recycled class glass is no
by foo_barrio 5y ago
Also, hardly ever do you get the thing you started with. Clear glass bottles are not recycled into more clear glass bottles. IIRC the recycled class glass is not clear enough and you end up with lower quality glass. Car tire rubber get recycled into other things (unless they get retreaded). I think aluminum cans are one of the few things that get recycled into more aluminum cans (minus some % loss).
- bmitc 5y agoWhy does that matter? Is there an alternative?
- aembleton 5y agoCleaning the glass bottles out and re-using them.
- foo_barrio 5y agoYes reduce and reuse. Recycling is the last the things to consider. Clean the bottles and re-use them. Don't crush them and spend energy making something else with that material.
- bmitc 5y agoThat was already pointed out, so I was confused by the comment chain. Of course reduce and reuse should be the priority, but the comment chain seemed to imply that recycling isn’t perfect, so it shouldn’t be done, as the person you responded to explicitly suggested in their other comment.
- foo_barrio 5y agoI was attempting to expand on "why" recycling is the last thing to do.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoWho cares if their drink is in clear glass as long as it's clean?
- foo_barrio 5y agoI gave a simple example. The point is that recycling often results in an inferior product than what you started with even after spending energy to reprocess the raw material even for something as simple as a bottle. It's the last thing to consider. Reduce and reuse are the first two.