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Re:Ask HN: Where Are All the Parties? by gruez on Friday January 20, 2023 @08:31PM (#34462797)
> Most recycling winds up in a landfill. It’s expensive and costs energy. Sometimes we just pay china to put waste into a landfill and call it recycling.

Source for this being applicable to glass? The news sources I've seen say that it's mostly an issue with plastics.

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Re:Ask HN: Where Are All the Parties? by wkat4242 on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:38PM (#34463947)
Also, glass isn't terribly polluting. It's inert and it will eventually degrade into sand. It'll take a long time but it's not like microplastics that stay in the body.

And we've been recycling glass before recycling was a big thing of course.

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