Find out how and where to recycle your glass.
Glass is endlessly and 100% recyclable and can be used to make new bottles and jars over and over again.
How to recycle your glass
Empty glass bottles and jars of any colour can be placed in your green recycling bin (or bags if you are on a bag collection), or taken to a glass bank or recycling centre.
This includes all colour glass - for example wine, spirits and beer bottles, pop bottles, jam jars, pasta sauce jars, coffee jars and even the spread that people either seem to love or hate.
Please leave screw tops and lids on - they will be recycled too. There is no need to remove labels either.
Glass recycled in green bins, green bags and bottle banks is 100% remelted in Yorkshire and can be back on the shelf as a new bottle or jar within 30 days.
Items such as light bulbs, drinking glasses and Pyrex containers should not be put into green bins or bottle banks. If these items are good enough to re-use, please take them to your local charity shop. If they are not, wrap them in paper and throw them away in your black rubbish bin.
Find your nearest bottle bank
Glass can also be recycled at over 700 recycling banks across the city.
Your nearest bottle bank is closer than you think –
download the Leeds Bins app on the Google Play store or
the Apple App store to find your nearest, or
use our map.
Report an untidy bottle bank
If waste has been left on the ground surrounding our glass recycling containers, you can
report fly tipping online.
If you know who dumped the waste, you can also report this to us, and we may be able to give them a fine or prosecute them.
Report a damaged or overflowing bottle bank
We regularly empty public glass recycling containers as part of a scheduled collection. There is no need to report a full container, we will empty them as soon as we can.
If your nearest container is full please use another one nearby or take your waste to a household waste recycling centre. Do not leave any waste on the ground surrounding our containers as this is fly tipping and you could be fined or prosecuted.
You can report a damaged bottle bank or any other issues with our glass recycling containers by emailing
leeds.waste@leeds.gov.uk.
