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If your area has a kerbside recycling scheme, you can put all your empty
bottles and jars out with your other recyclable rubbish in the special box provided.
Every local authority also has glass bottle banks in public places, like
supermarket car parks, civic car parks and amenity sites. Take your bottles to the nearest bank.
- Always take refillable bottles, such as milk bottles, back to the supplier – these don't need to be recycled.
- Before putting glass into bottle banks, empty and rinse them and remove any bottle caps, lids or corks.
- Always separate clear, brown and green glass into the correct bottle banks. Place blue bottles in the green bottle bank.
- If a bottle is decorated with ink, paints or a plastic sleeve, look at the top of the bottle or jar to see what colour the glass is and which bank it
should be put in.
- Only deposit glass bottles and jars - never deposit items such as window glass or light bulbs. White opaque bottles (ones that you can't
see through) are not recyclable either.
- Important!! Certain materials, if mixed up with glass bottles and jars,
can cause a whole batch of cullet to be rejected. Never put pottery, crockery, or heat resistant glass (such as Pyrex or Visionware) in a bottle bank or your kerbside recycling box.
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