I know I’ve written about this subject before, this time I want to point out some additional proof that sometimes it just doesn’t make sense to recycle. In this article, there is a big push to recycle glass, with the glass manufacturers getting in on the show as well. If you look closely, you’ll notice that the push is going to be in the cities where there is a glass production plant. Why would that be? As committed to glass recycling as this group may be, even they recognize that if you’re not near a plant, the economic and environmental costs are too high to recycle glass.

There is also potentially an unintended consequence to their education plan. Their focus is children (which I have always encouraged due to the success of seatbelt education) who will become avid glass recyclers and will some day move to another area away from a glass manufacturing plant. Their passion will cause them to spend energy and money getting a government facility up and running just to have it fail. Hopefully, their education initiative will include a bit about when it doesn’t make sense to recycle glass.