Glass Bottles

In the UK, we recycle around 60% of our glass bottles and jars but with a little effort, this could be as high as 90%.

Using recycled glass saves energy, Co2, and raw materials, as well as reducing landfill.

After bottles are collected, separated from other waste and sorted by colour, they arrive at the processing facility and are crushed into small pieces called "cullet".

Contaminants, are removed from the cullet using magnets, air suction, and laser sorters

The cullet is melted in a furnace at over fifteen hundred °c and certain key ingredients are added

The liquid glass is then divided into 'gobs', which can be blown or pressed into brand new bottles and jars and, because glass is such a great material, it can be recycled indefinitely!