You can recycle glass bottles and jars in either your green kerbside recycling box or in one of the grey glass banks around North Lincolnshire. But what can be accepted?
Yes please:
- Glass bottles and jars including:
- Sauce bottles
- Jam and chutney jars
- Glass perfume bottles
- Beer bottles
- Wine bottles
- In glass banks only: broken glass (for health and safety reasons, we can't accept broken glass in the green box) for example broken bottles or jars or broken drinking glasses.
No thanks:
- Light bulbs
- Pyrex type dishes
- Window glass
- Spectacle lenses
Have we missed anything? Email us at wastemanagement@northlincs.gov.uk and let us know.
The facts
In the UK, it is thought that we use six billion glass bottles and jars every year. Glass is 100 per cent recyclable and can be recycled over and over again without losing its clarity or purity.
- In the UK it is thought that over 1.4 million tonnes of glass is landfilled each year because we throw it into our dustbins
- If glass is sent to landfill, it will never fully decompose and will stay underground forever
- The energy saving from recycling one glass bottle will: power a 100 watt light bulb for almost an hour, power a computer for 25 minutes or power a colour TV for 20 minutes.
Visit our what happens next? page to find out more about recycling glass.
How you can help
- Glass bottles and jars can be put into your green kerbside box for recycling. Please see the green box for more details. When collected the glass is sorted onto a vehicle according to the colour of the glass you have put out for recycling
- Alternatively you can deposit your glass bottles and jars in your nearest glass recycling bank according to its colour. To find your nearest glass recycling point please use the search function on the following page: where can I recycle?
- Always take refillable bottles and jars, for example milk bottles, with or without a deposit back to the supplier
- Please rinse the bottles and jars containing foodstuff (avoid wasting water; use your washing up water)
- Try to remove metal and plastic bottle caps, lids and corks before putting them in the recycling banks or your kerbside recycling box. There is no need to remove paper labels. Metal lids and caps can however be put into the green kerbside box or can bank for recycling with cans and tins
- At most recycling banks, glass is collected in the banks in three separate colours; green, brown or clear. Blue bottles should be placed in the green bank. The colours need to be kept separate for the recycling process.
Things to avoid
- Reduce pollution and save energy; don't make a special car journey to the glass bank. Combine it with another trip for example to the supermarket
- Only recycle glass jars or bottles. Light bulbs pyrex-type dishes, window glass etc. should not be put in glass banks
- Do not mix colours as the glass reprocessors will not accept it and it wastes everyone’s efforts.
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Every year, the amount of household waste being created is increasing. A solution to this problem will only be achieved with the help and co-operation of you all as residents of North Lincolnshire.
For more information about waste and recycling in North Lincolnshire please contact the Customer Helpline on 01724 297000 or email wastemanagement@northlincs.gov.uk