Glass Stuff

There are over 100 glass recycling sites located across Kirklees. For details of your nearest glass recycling banks please see the community recycling sites page.

Glass is also collected from the kerbside from approximately 175,000 properties in Kirklees.

• Glass on our kerbside collection scheme is collected on the same day as green bins using a separate, specially designed vehicle.
• It is then delivered to a glass recycling plant in Barnsley. The glass is sorted into different colours and is then cleaned and crushed.
• The crushed glass is then transferred to a furnace where it is melted at very high temperatures.
• The melted glass is moulded into new glass bottles and jars which are checked for faults and then sent to be filled.

Here is a list of what can and can't be recycled in your glass box.

Glass bottles     Glass jars		Light bulbs Pyrex and cookware Drinking glasses Spectacles Window panes Broken glass
Please remember to remove lids and rinse out your glass bottles and jars and place them loosely in the box (not in bags)		The items above should not be placed in your green box because they currently cannot be dealt with at the glass recycling plant

The kerbside box should be presented by 7am on collection day. Please note that although boxes are collected on the same day as green wheelie bins, collection is undertaken by a different crew and therefore could be collected at different times of the day.