At this point, we might as well return to glass milk bottles

To the editor: The crux of this combat isn’t whether or not the trade or activists are right over the usage of the recyclability label, it’s whether or not or not the containers really are recyclable (“Inside the fight over the recycling label on your milk carton,” Aug. 27). What number of articles within the Los Angeles Occasions and different papers have identified over time our poor file of recycling? At this level, the nation ought to return to glass bottles. Simple to wash and recycle. At worst, in the event that they break, they are often melted down and the glass reused, or lastly simply flip again into sand.

Michael Lampel, Granada Hills