Recycling glass. A bad thing
Lisa Provence (writer for of The Hook, an award-winning online newspaper in Charlottsville, Virginia) in an article about a possible antienvironmental decision by a recycling center wrote: “Locally, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority stirred up a green frenzy when it contemplated plans to stop accepting glass, plastic, phone books, and textiles at the McIntire Road Recycling Center and to charge $1 per vehicle entering to recycle whatever’s left.”
This caused a commotion among the online community. Blogger Tropea claimed “trashing glass, plastic, textiles, and phone books recycling will save about $8,000. Plastic and glass are the losers.”
Another blogger, Coiner, said “The markets for it may be less than the freight of getting it to them,”. With the costs involved in recycling plastic and glass, is it worth it to try to recycle them?
“Economically, no, it is not,” says Coiner. “But I think you have to look at the bigger picture.
Environmentally, is it right not to recycle?”