New York Newsday reports that the Sanitation Department had been storing rock salt where the city's Department of Transportation turns ground glass from a recycling program into material for paving. Somehow the two substances got mixed up, and following a snowfall city trucks sowed Brooklyn streets with glass. "The most pathetic thing about this incident is that nobody found having glass on the street unusual," columnist Gail Collins wrote. Desensitized Brooklynites assumed the glass came from vandalism and accidents, she wrote. "This is what we get for recycling," one disgruntled resident told Newsday.

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