Glass recycling
Jan. 8th, 2008 02:44 pmWe had (well, had) a large glass topped coffee table and the 3' by 3' glass broke. Is there some place we can take it for recycling? It's in rather large pieces, and won't fit into our (dainty little) blue bin.
Thanks!
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Date: 2008-01-08 08:01 pm (UTC)PSA: Recycling can be very particular about what they will and will not accept. The reason is that they do not have the ability to sort through and remove contaminating items. If you contaminate the recycling stream, recycles will often just dump the whole load out and send it straight to the landfill, wasting everyone's efforts and creating the landfill waste we hoped to avoid in the first place. Lots of recycling used to end up just getting landfilled. I'm not saying this glass can't be recycled or that they do that here in Somerville, but at least a few years ago, avoiding contamination of the recycle stream was paramount.
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