Glass: Recycling’s Negative-Value Problem

Earth911
May 19, 2026, 7:00 am118 ptsTrending
The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more than two-thirds of that glass never gets recycled into new bottles. This isn’t because people aren’t trying. Glass is now the only common packaging material that costs recycling facilities more to process than they…

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