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> Improper disposal for glass bottles is much worse, as you know if you've ever stepped on a broken glass bottle underwater at the beach.

Is it? After a short time the glass is smoothed by the sand/sea/rock and is fairly low impact.



Only at the beach, unless by "a short time" you mean centuries to millennia. In any other context (in the forest, by the side of the highway, in a river, in the desert, buried in your backyard) the glass can remain dangerously sharp for at least millennia and in some cases billions of years.

Of course there are natural sharp rocks, too, just like there's natural asbestos and natural hydrogen sulfide.




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