Glass recycling information

Recycle glass from Wednesday 2 January 2008

From Wednesday 2 January 2008, all residents can put glass bottles and jars, along with paper, card, plastic bottles, tins and cans in your blue-lidded wheeled bin. Thanks to the installation of new equipment, glass collections are now possible. This means you will be diverting even more waste from landfill sites.

What can I recycle?

Yes please	No thank you
Glass jars (all colours)	Light bulbs
Glass bottles (all colours)	Kitchenware
Please ensure that glass bottles and       jars are rinsed before placing them in your blue bin.	Pyrex products
	Window glass
	Remove all lids and put them in your black bin

Please note: plate glass, car windows, light bulbs and oven/kitchenware cannot be placed in your blue-lidded wheeled bin. The materials listed in the red column will contaminate the waste and you will need to remove them before your bin can be emptied.

Glass collected will be crushed and used as aggregate by the construction business. Using glass as an aggregate is suitable way to make use of what may otherwise be buried in landfill.

If you participated in the glass trial

Please continue to place recyclable glass into your blue-lidded wheeled bin.

If you use blue sacks

Unfortunately, for health and safety reasons, households that use blue recycling sacks are unable to recycle glass through the kerbside collections. If you would like to request a blue-lidded wheeled bin, and have space to accommodate it, please contact the Council to arrange delivery. If you are unable to use wheeled bins, please continue to recycle glass at your local bottle bank, civic amenity site or street recycling bin.

If your blue bin is overflowing

If you find your blue-lidded wheeled bin is full and you need to put out extra recycling, please ensure that any glass is contained within the recycling bin. This may mean removing other items, such as cardboard or plastic bottles to make room.

Provided these other materials are presented next to your bin, and are contained in something other than a black sack, they will be collected by the Council.

Should you find that you regularly generate additional recyclable material, please contact the Council to request another blue-lidded wheeled bin.

Why are we asked to separate clear, brown and green glass at neighbourhood recycling sites but can place all colours into the blue recycling bin?

Glass collected at the Borough´s neighbourhood recycling sites is melted and used to produce new single colour glass packaging.

The chemicals used to produce different coloured glass cannot subsequently be removed, therefore, where colour purity is vital, it is important that colours are not mixed.