Do you know where “recycled,” empty wine bottles end up? I did not, and after making some phone calls, I found that even folks in the recycling chain are not sure. The nasty little secret, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates, is that up to 80 percent of the hundreds of millions of cases of bottles sold in the U.S. die in the landfill each year. While bottle manufacturers like to add recycled glass (called cullet), to their slurry of melted new sand to help reduce ...