Glass is 100% recyclable. Recycling one glass bottle instead of making a new one saves enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for 4 years. Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw material reduces related air pollution by 20 percent and water pollution by 50 percent.
Here are the questions asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community.
For the last several years, all of our local recycling centers have been refusing glass jars and bottles, saying there's no market for them. Is this nationwide? Is there any hope of a resurgence in the market? I'm running out of uses for empty glass jars!
By KS Granny
We still have glass recycling in Seattle.
Here's something I do that you might consider: I buy in bulk. At my co-op I can bring in glass containers and have them weighed at the deli counter.
Our curbside recycling is done by Waste Management, and they still accept glass. This is in central Oklahoma.
We are still able to put glass out in our recycling bin and I still find plenty of products in glass jars.
