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