GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Foil is one of the items that get recycled in the majority of landfills. Specially if you live in a big city. We have a list of the wall of the trash and recycle room of what we should be recycling. Foil is on that list. No guilt required!
Addie, landfills, by their very definition, do not recycle anything. Stuff is dumped into them and buried forever.
Using foil, like many other commodities, requires more aluminum to be mined, purified, manufactured, packaged and distributed. Using the minimum required reduces the energy required to replace all that. Not to mention the associated costs to the planet.