Glass recycling box
What goes in your glass box?
Your kerbside box is for the collection of glass bottles and jars.
Yes
- Wine bottles
- Cooking sauce jars
- Jam jars
- Beer bottles
- Coffee jars
- Ketchup bottles
- Baby food jars
No
- Light bulbs
- Drinking glasses
- Spectacles
- Pyrex dishes
- Sheet glass / greenhouse / window glass
- Crockery
- Tea-light candle holders
- Broken glass
Using your glass recycling box
- Remove wine bottle corks and jar lids. These cannot be recycled as part of this service. Put these in your grey bin.
- Rinse glass bottles and jars to remove food and drink residue.
- Place items straight into your box. Do not use carrier bags or bin liners.
- Do not fill your box too full.
- Additional glass presented in your own containers will not be collected.
- Your glass box will be emptied every fortnight.
- Ensure your glass box is presented at the kerbside by 6:30am on your collection day.
- Order a new or replacement box
Excess glass
If you have lots of glass bottles, you can recycle these at a local Recycling Point or "bottle bank".
These are located at:
- Stobhill Recycling Centre
- Penicuik Recycling Centre
- Labour Club, Stone Place, Mayfield
- Carrington Village Hall car park
- Tesco, Penicuik
Please consider neighbouring properties when using community facilities:
- Do not use between 8pm and 8am
- If the banks are full, let us know
- Do not leave bags or boxes of materials around the bins
Recycling other glass items
- Ceramic ornaments or glass dishes in good condition can be donated to a local charity shop.
- Broken crockery can be recycled in the rubble skip at Stobhill Household Waste Recycling Centre.
- Broken glass and mirrors should be placed in your grey bin for disposal.
Why is my neighbour's box red and mine is green or silver?
Each time we buy new kerbside boxes we make a decision based on quality and price rather than colour. This means that it may be more cost effective for us to buy green or silver boxes rather than red ones.
We also try and buy boxes that are made from recycled plastic which may affect the colours we are able to buy.
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