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My guess: logistics of recycling glass is more expensive than getting sand.

And glass in landfills isn’t doing much harm.

My town doesn’t recycle glass.






Yeah this is basically it. And then with the glass you also have to keep it separated by color.

You don't HAVE to, but you aren't going to be making clear glass again if you mix it with other colored glasses. Im not an glass expert though and it could be more of a cost consideration in not having to chemically separate out colored elements from glass when you can much more easily just get clean sand again for significantly cheaper.



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