Glass bin

Your glass bin has a purple lid and is collected every four weeks.

✅ What CAN go in the glass bin?

	✅ Glass bottles including lids
	✅ Glass jars including lids

❌ What CAN’T go in the glass bin?

These items can’t go in your glass bin because they are made from different types of glass and aren’t single-use recyclable glass.

	❌ Drinking glasses
	❌ Broken crockery
	❌ Storage and baking ware
	❌ Perfume bottles
	❌ Window glass

Most glass can be recycled over and over without any decline in quality.

Glass bottles and jars have their own bin so they don't break and lodge in other recyclables. Having a separate glass bin means more material is recycled to create useful products, rather than sent to landfill. 

What happens to the bin contents? 

Your glass items are processed by Visy resource recovery centre in Laverton and Spotswood. They are sorted and crushed to produce glass cullet, which is melted and manufactured into new glass products, like bottles and jars. Leftover fine fragments are used in the production of road surfaces.