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I was sorting my recycling today between stuff that can be recycled through my local program and stuff that doesn't fulfill the local requirements and that I can send instead to Terracycle so that it won't all get thrown in the trash.I have two empties by Glow Recipe: their watermelon toner and their plum serum, both of which come in dyed bottles. The toner bottle is dyed pink and the plum serum is a magenta-ish color.My city only accepts glass bottles that are green, brown, or just colorless. All other colors get thrown in the trash. This is the norm for a whole lot of places, because clear/green/brown glass for whatever reason are the colors that can most effectively be converted back into raw material and reused. Sometimes blue can also work. Other dyes seem to get in the way of allowing glass to be repurposed.At first I thought it was no biggie because I know Glow Recipe is an official partner of Terracycle. But when I went to confirm, I was surprised to see that Terracycle only mentions agreeing to recycle the brand's "plastic and metal products." In Glow Recipe's recycling guide where they break down which parts to send to Terracycle for each product, ALL the glass components are instructed to be recycled "at home."This is kinda vague, because their guide encourages people to upcycle their "shelfie-worthy" bottles "which are designed to be repurposed." So when they say to "recycle at home" are they telling people to upcycle the glass parts or are they telling people to send their glass bottles off to their local programs? For me, the second isn't possible. But if they're telling people to upcycle, this suggests to me that their glass isn't recyclable even by Terracycle's standards.I contacted both Glow Recipe and Terracycle to ask if their glass products are recyclable through that program. The conversation with Glow Recipe was convoluted and left me more confused than when I started. I'm still waiting on a response from Terracycle.Anyway, even if the Terracycle program DOES accept Glow Recipe's glass bottles, I think this new pattern of Glow Recipe packaging their products in dyed bottles is bad for the simple reason that most people probably don't even know Terracycle exists. Most people who recycle are going to send these dyed bottles to their local programs, many of which will throw them straight in the trash because of the dyes.And even if people "upcycle," how realistic is that in the long run, especially for people who are loyal to their products and repurchase frequently. Sure, I can upcycle this toner bottle to hold one of my plants, but my house is going to look like a landfill if I keep repurchasing it and trying to "upcycle." And there's only a certain amount of times that I'll be able to convince someone else to take the bottles as decoration.Most of Glow Recipe's earlier products came in clear glass packaging, but lately I've noticed that the bottles themselves are dyed. They'll probably say it's to protect the ingredients from the light, but I think it's most likely aesthetically-driven and that they just think their products look prettier on the shelf if the color doesn't go away as they gradually empty. They can just instruct people to keep products in shelves out of light if they're that concerned about light.The funniest thing to me about looking through Glow Recipe's recycling guide was seeing that damn near EVERY single plastic component in their products can be recycled through Terracycle, whereas it's unclear with their glass products. It just makes me laugh because the brand gets a ton of praise for using glass instead of plastic for a bunch of their products because people have blindly bought into the idea that glass is ALWAYS the better option.
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