Glass bottles and jars have their own bins in Ararat Rural City Council so broken glass doesn’t contaminate the rest of the
recyclable material in the co-mingled yellow lid bin. 

80 litre glass bins with the purple lid are collected every four weeks on your designated collection day.

It does not matter if you remove or leave the lids on your glass bottles and jars, if you remove the lids please place them in the
recycling bin with the yellow lid or waste bin with the red lid. 

Broken glass makes other items like cardboard, paper and plastic hard to recycle. By putting your glass bottles and jars in a separate bin more of them can be recycled into new things.

Correctly using your glass recycling bin makes a big impact. Different types of glass have different melting points, so we
can’t recycle different types of glass together.

Only put glass bottles and jars in your glass recycling bin, and all other glass in your general rubbish bin. This includes broken
drinking glasses, windows, mirrors, vases, glass cooking dishes, and perfume bottles.

Please remember - No glass of any kind goes into your yellow mixed recycling bin!