Purple Lid Bin (Glass)

• Glass Jars (empty, clean): pasta sauce, jam, condiments, etc.
• Glass Bottles (empty, clean): cordial, oil, wine, champagne, beer, spirit, etc.

• Bottle and jar lids and corks NOT attached to the container
• Drinking glassware and crystal glassware
• Mirrors and windows
• Glass bottles containing cigarette butts or lids
• Broken crockery, bakeware or glass storage containers
• Perfume bottles

All of these items must be placed in your red lid (landfill) bin, except metal lids which can go in the yellow lid bin.

Broken glass makes other items like cardboard, paper and plastic hard to recycle.

By putting your glass bottles and jars in a separate bin more glass can be recycled into new things like jars and bottles. It also reduces contamination in your mixed recycling bin, making sure that paper, card and plastics can be recovered effectively, improving the quality and value of these materials to be turned into new products.

Glass does not degrade through the recycling process, so it can be recycled again and again.

In line with State Government policy, the 4-bin waste service is now the standard service for households in our rural city.
There isn’t an option to opt-out of having a glass recycling bin, just like you couldn't opt-out of having a mixed recycling or general rubbish bin in the past.You cannot opt-out of using the glass recycling service because glass is no longer accepted in the yellow-lidded mixed recycling bin.

Lids off!

Loose lids should be placed in your general rubbish bin as these get lost in the recycling process.

By sorting your glass into a separate bin, you are improving the quality of recyclables we collect in our community.
Recycling well and reducing waste helps keep valuable resources out of landfill. This means they can be turned into new things like glass jars.