Before you recycle your glass bottles and containers, remember the following:
- Recycle glass containers only. Check to make sure it’s a glass bottle or jar, such as food jars, tea and soda bottles and beer and wine bottles. Do not include for recycling any non-container glass such as drinking glasses, ceramic coffee cups, Pyrex, mirrors, etc.
- Keep it clean. Be sure to keep out any contaminants, such as metal caps, lids or neck rings, ceramic and wire caps from beer bottles and light bulbs. Contaminants damage furnaces during the recycling process.
- Rinse with water, but don’t worry about labels; those will burn off in the recycling process.
- Know your local glass recycling rules. Most glass that is collected at the curb allows for all colors of glass bottles to be recycled mixed. At a drop-off center, however, glass may be separated by color for collection.
