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Glass and Ceramics


Bottles
See below for dealing with glass bottles. For plastic bottles click here.

Broken Glass
Broken glass should be placed in your rubbish bin. For safety reasons wrap it in newspaper and place out with your rubbish in a separate, clearly labelled bag to protect the collection crew.

Ceramics
If unbroken, ceramics can be reused. Broken ceramics and china helps drainage when placed at the bottom of plant pots.

Please do not place into glass bottle banks, as it cannot be recycled with glass and will mean the contents of the entire recycling bank will have to be thrown away instead.

N.B. Please wrap sharp utensils and broken crockery in newspaper and place out with your rubbish in a separate, clearly labelled bag to protect the collection crew.

China
See ceramics above.

Crockery and cutlery
Kitchen utensils can be reused. Or dispose of them with your ordinary rubbish.

N.B. Please wrap sharp utensils and broken crockery in newspaper and place out with your rubbish in a separate, clearly labelled bag to protect the collection crew.

Fluorescent Tubes
See electrical.

Glass

Empty wine bottles also make good candle holders and vases. Try to buy refillable and returnable bottles where possible. For example buy milk and fruit juices from your local milkman who will collect and reuse empty bottles.

Glass bottles and jars can be recycled using your kerbside black recycling box, at your local mini recycling site, or at one of the household waste recycling centres. 
Please remove tops / lids and rinse bottles before placing in the container.
We accept:
Clear glass
Green glass
Brown glass
Blue glass
Bottles
Sauce/oil bottles
Glass jars
We don’t accept:
Mirrors
Toughened glass
Safety glass
Crystal
Pyrex
Drinking glasses
Window panes
If you have blue bottles these should be placed into the green glass recycling bank.

Broken glass should be placed in your rubbish bin. For safety reasons wrap it in newspaper and place out with your rubbish in a separate, clearly labelled bag to protect the collection crew.

Unwanted mirrors, drinking glasses, plates, bowls or crystal items which are in good condition can be donated to a charity shop or sold to a second hand shop.

Glasses / Spectacles
Unwanted spectacles can make a real difference to people in developing countries, so please donate yours to the many opticians who take part in these schemes.

The 'World in Sight Appeal' is run by Help The Aged and aims to bring much needed relief to people suffering from poor vision in some of the poorest parts of the world. They will accept all glasses including broken and irreparable frames. You can donate them to this appeal at Dolland & Aitchison Opticians or your local Help the Aged shop. Visit www.helptheaged.org.uk for more details.

Jars
Try to reuse. jars (for example preserving food or as containers for pins, screws), or recycle as glass. Please remove any plastic liners.

Broken glass should be placed in your rubbish bin. For safety reasons wrap it in newspaper and place out with your rubbish in a separate, clearly labelled bag to protect the collection crew.

Light Bulbs
See electrical.

Fluorescent tubes can not be placed in your household waste bin. See electrical.

Medicine bottles
Most unwanted medicine can be returned to pharmacies and chemists.
Empty bottles can be rinsed and recycled as glass, see above.

Milk Bottles
Try and buy your milk in returnable glass bottles and make sure that you return them to the milkman. On average the glass milk bottles used by the milkmen are reused 24 times – this saves energy and resources.

Packaging
Most products require some packaging for health or product information reasons but you can try to avoid buying items with excess packaging.
Packaging components include:
  • - Paper and board
  • - Plastics - rigid and flexible
  • - Glass
  • - Metals - tinplate and aluminium

Try to reduce the amount of waste packaging by:
  • - Buying lightly or non-packaged products
  • - Avoiding wasteful or gimmicky packaging
  • - Refusing extra bagging
  • - Using products with refillable containers whenever possible.
See also, plastic.

Pyrex
Pyrex can not be recycled. Items in good condition can be reused.

Broken glass should be placed in your rubbish bin. For safety reasons wrap it in newspaper and place out with your rubbish in a separate, clearly labelled bag to protect the collection crew.



Page last updated on: 03/09/2009