Nebraskans throw tons of glass into landfills each year. Some are trying to change that. - Flatwater Free Press

Nebraskans throw tons of glass into landfills each year. Some are trying to change that. - Flatwater Free Press

Roaming around his family farm near Nebraska City, Daryl Steinman discovered old bottles and jars in piles of charred debris. Brown, green, clear, some embossed with makers’ marks harkening back to before he was born in 1965.  He occasionally spotted blobs of melted glass, remnants left by homesteaders and farm families who had burned their trash before Steinman’s family bought the farm 65 years ago, he thought. They sparked a realization. “If y…