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What happens next?

When you recycle glass:

• The bottles and jars are collected  from the glass bank/kerbside;
  
• Your local council separate the glass into different colours at your civic amenity site;
  
• The bottles and jars arrive at a glass reprocessing plant where they are crushed and cleaned. Crushed glass is called cullet;
  
• The cullet is put into high temperature furnaces to melt the glass;

Did you know using glass cullet in a furnace uses less energy than making new glass from scratch?

• The melted glass is made into new bottles and jars

Did you know we can recycle glass indefinitely? –if we recycle it, this resource can be used again and again. If we don’t, this valuable resource will be sent to landfill and lost forever  (Source: Wasteonline.org.uk)

Key fact
On average, every family in the UK consumes around 330 glass bottles and jars a year.(Source: British Glass)

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