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by infecto 601 days ago
Did you read what I said? It is indeed recyclable but it’s quite inefficient unless said glass collection is geographically near glass manufacturing facilities. Cullet is heavy and usually glass plants are built in a geographically advantageous area. For example, while glass is commonly collected in the US as recycling, it is often trashed because cullet is not cost effective to transport.

It definitely is great to be recycled but hauling around cullet in diesel trucks that is further away than your raw materials might not be the best decision.