Glass recycling
Glass recycling is a perpetual form of recycling. Unlike some other recycled products, a recycled bottle transferred into other glass bottles; this process can go on endlessly with no loss in quality or purity. Glass is 100% recyclable.
The steps of Glass recycling
- Recyclables placed in curbside bins or business recycling containers ore recycle drop-offs
- Recyclables are collected
- Recyclables delivered to material recovery facilities
- Recyclables separated by material types
- Glass from the MRF and drop-off locations to a glass processing company
- Glass separated from the trash and other contaminants, then sorted by colour
- Recycled glass sold to glass container manufacturers and made into new glass bottles and other
- Consumers purchase products packed in glass