In Los Angeles and Phoenix glass goes into the recycling bin, together with aluminum cans, plastic bottles etc. Here the idea is that you throw it into recycling and that it gets sorted at the recycling facility. We are told not to crush cans before throwing them in recycling as crushing them makes it harder to separate them.
It's very different from when I lived in Belgium. Glass went into glass recycling, plastic in a blue bag (and they checked, a LOT), refuse in the grey bin, and there are battery recycling stations EVERYWHERE.
And the way they encourage you to sort your trash in Belgium is by weighing your trash (container full - container empty = weight of trash), and you pay for that. So cheating and throwing your glass into your refuse container will end up costing you.
Both solutions are OK, we have the in between one where people are expected to do their duty. Which they do or not.
The recycling was solicited a few years ago with just 3 bins: green for glass, yellow for paper, plastic, metal and a few other things and brown for generic trash
It's very different from when I lived in Belgium. Glass went into glass recycling, plastic in a blue bag (and they checked, a LOT), refuse in the grey bin, and there are battery recycling stations EVERYWHERE.
And the way they encourage you to sort your trash in Belgium is by weighing your trash (container full - container empty = weight of trash), and you pay for that. So cheating and throwing your glass into your refuse container will end up costing you.