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Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by 5555624 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:13AM (#20766418)
Earlier this year, Arlington County, Virginia removed glass from their curbside recycling program, "A significant drop in the market value of glass recyclables means it is no longer economically or environmentally sustainable for the County to collect them via single-stream recycling."

They have two drop-of locations, where residents can drop off glass "for crushing and reuse as construction and landscaping material."

(https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/arlington-shifting-g...)

Re:Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why by themeiguoren on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:21AM (#20787272)
The answer, unless you want to check the price of commodities each morning, is to recycle glass and bottles anyway and let the recycler decide if it’s economically efficient to send it to the landfill or to reprocessing.