Glass-only bin
Glass bottles and jars (without lids) go in the kerbside glass-only bin.
Your glass-only bin is collected every four weeks in urban and rural collection areas.
Glass collected in your kerbside glass-only bin is taken to a recycling depot in Geelong where it is crushed. Council uses the crushed glass as a replacement for quarried sand.
When glass bottles and jars are put in your recycling bin instead of your glass-only bin, it can make the recyclables in your yellow-lidded bin less valuable and difficult to recycle. Tiny shards of broken glass get caught in the paper and cardboard, which reduces it quality and may mean it can’t be recycled into new paper products.
What's accepted in my GLASS-only bin?
Search the A-Z guide for a specific item, or check the lists below:
Remove ALL lids from:
Beauty products e.g. foundation, face and eye creams
Beer, wine & spirits
Broken glass bottles & jars
Champagne
Chutney & relish jars
coloured bottles & jars e.g. amber, green, clear
condiments such as dijon, wholegrain mustard etc..
Cough syrup
Crushed ginger & minced garlic
Curry paste
Instant coffee
Jam & honey
Mayonnaise
Medicine
Olive oil
Pasta bake
Sauces e.g. tomato, barbecue, hoisin, satay etc.
Spirits e.g. whiskey, gin, tequila
Vinegar
Vegemite
Vitamins
Wine bottles
If you can’t find your item, search the A-Z guide for a specific item.
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What's NOT accepted in my GLASS-only bin?
Glass-only bin tips
- Empty all bottles and scrape jars to remove food residue
- Put bottles and jars in the bin loose – no plastic bags or cardboard boxes
- Metal collars (on bottles) and paper labels can stay on
- Broken bottles and jars are accepted.
- Broken drinking glasses are NOT accepted.
- Up to 0.5m3 (about a car boot load) of glass bottles and jars are accepted free of charge at transfer stations
- The metal collars around glass bottles can stay on the bottle.
- Labels can stay on bottles and jars
- Remove lids from ALL bottles and jars and put them in bins as follows:
- Beer bottle caps
Put them in the recycling bin. They are small, but magnets will pick them up off the sorting line.
- Wine & spirit bottle screw tops
Put them in your landfill bin. These aluminium lids are not magnetic, so will not be picked up by magnets.
- Small plastic lids
Put them in your landfill bin. Lids smaller than a credit card, like from milk, juice and soft drink bottles, can get stuck and jam the sorting machines.