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Re:Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Waste of Money by ams6110 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @09:48PM (#12024511)
Corrugated cardboard is a net benefit to recycle, I've heard. Otherwise you are correct. It's just feel-good. Most of what you drop off at recycling centers is just trucked to landfills after it's out of your sight.
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Re:Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Waste of Money by titzer on Sunday July 03, 2016 @01:15AM (#12024911)
> Most of what you drop off at recycling centers is just trucked to landfills after it's out of your sight.

This is definitely not true in Germany. And for glass bottle recycling, most bottles are washed and reused up to 50 times before being melted down.

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