Answer:
May not be direct answers, but it may help?
1) For one, it's difficult to find out what can and cannot be recycled. There are so many different kinds of paper goods, plastics, and metals, and worst of all, so many things that are combinations of materials or exotic new inventions of material science, that no list could possibly include every possible case.
2) Disadvantages of Recycling
High upfront capital costs.
Recycling sites are always unhygienic, unsafe and unsightly.
Products from recycled waste may not be durable.
Recycling might not be inexpensive.
Recycling is not widespread on large scale.
More energy consumption and pollution.
Result in pollutants.
Increased processing cost and low-quality jobs.
3) “Glass is 100% recyclable,” says Robert Weisenburger Lipetz, executive director of the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC), a nonprofit trade association. “It has an unlimited life and can be melted and recycled endlessly to make new glass products with no loss in quality,” he adds
SO, The neighbor is right!
