Recycling Glass Bottles and Jars



Posted: Friday, July 10, 2009

by Patrick Hills
recyclingsupply

Disposing of glass bottles and jars in your home recycling bins that are specially meant for collecting glass is very important when the waste material is taken to recycling center. Items such as Stackable recycling bins help in sorting the waste material efficiently and reducing time spent in recycling. Most curbside recycling bins and rollout carts are tough enough for the glass items. Glass bottles and jars accounts to 30% of the total waste and disposing them properly not only contributes in recycling but also helps to save energy.

Glass comes in three different colors: colorless, green and amber (brown); all of them are made differently and so cannot be recycled together. Metals, corks, plastics, ceramics, papers when mixed with glass cannot only result in substandard glass but can also cause damage to the furnace used to melt the glass mixture. Trying to recycle them together can lead to contamination and reduction in quality of the glass.

Almost every product made of glass i.e. glass containers, jars, medicine bottles, glass food containers are good for recycling. However mirrors, window glass, light bulb, glass table ware and products where glass is blended with other non-glass materials should not be recycled.

Tips to effectively dispose glass bottles and jars:

Always make sure that the glass bottles and jars you want to be recycled are clean; if not, rinse them properly, only when they are clean, they should be deposited in the recycle bins. This will save potential contamination in the future.

Make sure that you have taken all labels off the glass bottles and jars. One good idea is to soak them overnight, the next day the labels can be peeled off easily.

In case of bottles, make sure that all non-glass parts are taken off, such as metal, plastic or cork cap, and metal strip around the bottle neck; the aim is to put only glass in the recycle bin.

The next step would be to segregate the glass products according to their colors: colorless, amber and green. You are now ready to dispose them, make sure that you put them in their respective containers.

Glass waste is generated everywhere - homes, offices, hotels, and public places etc. There are various bins that are suitable for disposing glass. To help users dispose glass waste in the correct recycling bin, decals indicating "Glass Only" can be used on them. You can find high quality recycling containers for all kinds of waste at discounted rates.

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