| Disposing of glass bottles and jars in your home | | | | Tips to effectively dispose glass bottles and jars:o |
| recycling bins that are specially meant for | | | | Always make sure that the glass bottles and jars |
| collecting glass is very important when the waste | | | | you want to be recycled are clean; if not, rinse |
| material is taken to recycling center. Items such | | | | them properly, only when they are clean, they |
| as Stackable recycling bins help in sorting the | | | | should be deposited in the recycle bins. This will |
| waste material efficiently and reducing time spent | | | | save potential contamination in the future.o Make |
| in recycling. Most curbside recycling bins and rollout | | | | sure that you have taken all labels off the glass |
| carts are tough enough for the glass items. Glass | | | | bottles and jars. One good idea is to soak them |
| bottles and jars accounts to 30% of the total | | | | overnight, the next day the labels can be peeled |
| waste and disposing them properly not only | | | | off easily.o In case of bottles, make sure that all |
| contributes in recycling but also helps to save | | | | non-glass parts are taken off, such as metal, |
| energy. | | | | plastic or cork cap, and metal strip around the |
| Glass comes in three different colors: colorless, | | | | bottle neck; the aim is to put only glass in the |
| green and amber (brown); all of them are made | | | | recycle bin.o The next step would be to |
| differently and so cannot be recycled together. | | | | segregate the glass products according to their |
| Metals, corks, plastics, ceramics, papers when | | | | colors: colorless, amber and green. You are now |
| mixed with glass cannot only result in substandard | | | | ready to dispose them, make sure that you put |
| glass but can also cause damage to the furnace | | | | them in their respective containers. |
| used to melt the glass mixture. Trying to recycle | | | | Glass waste is generated everywhere - homes, |
| them together can lead to contamination and | | | | offices, hotels, and public places etc. There are |
| reduction in quality of the glass. | | | | various bins that are suitable for disposing glass. |
| Almost every product made of glass i.e. glass | | | | To help users dispose glass waste in the correct |
| containers, jars, medicine bottles, glass food | | | | recycling bin, decals indicating "Glass Only" can be |
| containers are good for recycling. However | | | | used on them. You can find high quality recycling |
| mirrors, window glass, light bulb, glass table ware | | | | containers for all kinds of waste at discounted |
| and products where glass is blended with other | | | | rates. |
| non-glass materials should not be recycled. | | | | |