Recyclable Plastic Sunscreen and Glass is Trash ♻

What a crock!

That’s what I had to think about the company I heard on the podcast advertising green cleaning products in glass. Have you ever even looked into glass recycling? While glass may be technically recyclable when segregated by color and material, most of it gets pulverized in compactors and MRF when they get it at best save the glass for building landfill roads – not even ordinary highways. Or more likely landfill cover or just dumped with the rest of the garbage.

Then I put some more sunscreen on and was looking at the sunscreen bottle and it prominently has the recycle logo on the bottle and the number two with HDPE printed on it. Well at least I know when I chuck it in a fire it won’t be stinky super toxic to burn like PVC but I can’t imagine any of those bottles are ever recycled – there just is no market or practical use for HDPE plastic contaminated with beach sand, sunscreen and in a form not easily processed into things like plastic lumber or t-shirt fiber resin. It’s trash.