So we’ve covered off the plastics that can go into your yellow bin – now for the other half of that recycling equation. You might think, easy – anything that shatters matters (copyright Violet Crumble). You’d be wrong. Wine and beer bottles, yes; light bulbs, broken mirrors, a window – no. Why? Because they all have a different melting temperature to glass bottles and cannot be recycled.
Ready, set, Glass
- Clear, brown or green glass
- Wine bottles
- Beer bottles
- Glass jars (lids removed)
Bypass the Glass (bin)
- Pyrex and other oven and microwave proof containers
- Crockery and ceramics
- Drinking glasses
- Mirrors
- Window glass
- Lightbulbs
- Opaque or white glass (think a Malibu rum bottle