Smashing news! In the first 12 months, household glass collections have seen nearly 12,000 tonnes of glass recycled by Leeds residents through their green bins.
That's over 2 million wine bottles per month and has helped save 464 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2e). The equivalent of taking more than 170 cars off the road.
It has also helped increase glass recycling levels in Leeds from 48 percent to 75 percent in the first 12 months.
All empty glass bottles and jars of any colour can be recycled in your green bin (or bags if you are on a bag collection).
Give them a quick rinse first, leave labels, caps and lids on and they'll get recycled too.
You can still use your local bottle bank.
Recycle all these types of glass in your green bin (or bags if you are on a bag collection):
Bottles (leave any plastic or metal caps and lids on and they'll get recycled too)
Jars (leave any plastic or metal caps and lids on and they'll get recycled too)
Take these items to your local household waste recycling centre:
Pyrex and glassware in good condition can be donated to your local charity shop.
If waste has been left on the ground surrounding our glass recycling containers, you can report fly tipping online.
If you know who dumped the waste, you can also report this to us, and we may be able to give them a fine or prosecute them.
We regularly empty public glass recycling containers as part of a scheduled collection. There is no need to report a full container, we will empty them as soon as we can.
If your nearest container is full please use another one nearby or take your waste to a household waste recycling centre. Do not leave any waste on the ground surrounding our containers as this is fly tipping and you could be fined or prosecuted.
You can report a damaged bottle bank or any other issues with our glass recycling containers by emailing leeds.waste@leeds.gov.uk.