Hand in glass for disposal

You can hand in your glass waste at all recycling and green stations in Bremen and at all container sites in the city. Container glass can be recycled and is therefore collected separately for white and colored glass.

Used glass is particularly suitable for recycling as it can be melted down again as often as required and processed into new high-quality products. Compared to the production of new glass, used glass recycling helps to conserve raw materials and reduce energy requirements. Waste glass is usually recycled into container glass, for example bottles and containers for drinks and food.

White glass should be thrown into the white glass container, brown and green glass into the colored glass container

Make sure that you only throw empty glass packaging into the bottle bank and remove the remains beforehand.

This is container glass:

• Canning jars, glass bottles and containers (with caps and lids)
  
  • Lids and caps from jars or bottles can be removed beforehand and disposed of as packaging waste (yellow garbage can, yellow bag).
  • Otherwise, they are sorted out in the used glass processing facility at the recycling plant and then recycled.

This is not container glass:

• Household glass and tableware (earthenware, porcelain, ceramics, drinking glasses, glass vases) - all of this belongs in the residual waste garbage can.
• Window glass and wired glass count as construction waste
• Candle glass,
• crystal glass,
• window glass,
• mirror glass,
• car glass,
• fireproof glass such as laboratory glass,
• porcelain and ceramics,
• lamps or other foreign objects

Some of this waste has a different melting point, is difficult to sort out during used glass processing and can lead to high production losses or the accumulation of heavy metals in the container glass cycle, for example through lead crystal glass fragments. Therefore, this waste must not be disposed of in the used glass containers.

Requirements

• The delivery of waste and recyclable materials is only permitted with vehicles with a permissible total weight of up to 3.5 tons.
• The delivery of waste and recyclable materials must be sorted by type and free of harmful impurities and adhesions.