Glass really wasn't worth recycling at all until the landfill tax came in. If you have to start your car engine in order to participate in glass recycling, then it's almost certainly still not worth it. "Driving to the bottle bank" is an expression which is sometimes used to refer to pointless recycling. People are looking around for uses for coloured glass, and new road surfaces is something they are being used on, but I think that's still experimental. Manufacturing and using less coloured glass in the first place is probably a better bet, but people seem to like trying to solve problems at the wrong end of the supply chain.
Paper is another questionable one. The cost (in particular the energy use) of processing recycled paper often exceededs the cost of creating new paper. It has always seemed to me that paper should be buried in landfill as this is exactly the reverse process of burning fossil fuels, i.e. it's taking CO2 out of the atmosphere and burying it back underground. Actually, planting fast growing plants, harvesting them, and burying them down old coal mines could be quite a good thing to do from this perspective.