Glass Bottles & Jars

Wine, Beer, Jars, Jar, Glass, Liquor, Food jar, Jam, Vitamin glass bottle, Supplement glass bottle, Broken glass, Mason, Weck, Wreck, Jar lid, Cap, Medicine glass bottle, Brands chicken essence jars, Essential oil bottles

Recyclable?

Blue Bins & Chutes

Other Recycling

Specialised Recycling

Our favorite place to recycle glass is at Tzu Chi Environmental Sustainability day. Glass given to them is directly sent to P&R Resources, a glass recycling company.

You may also see P&R bins around but be sure to only put your glass in those if you have permission: F&B outlets need to pay for these bins!

Tzu Chi Sustainability Day

Tzu Chi Singapore environmental sustainability day where you can recycle many items

P&R Resource Management

Alternative

Recycling Bins & Chutes

Glass bottles and jars can be put in blue bins.

Blue Bins

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Freecycle / Give Away

There are occasionally takers for 2nd hand glass bottles and jars through various freecycling channels.

Free Glass bottles / Jars Singapore

Olio

Carousell

Terra SG

Alternative

Specialised Recycling

You may put your glass in a segregated bin but…

These segregated bins are not always great for glass. It has a higher chance of ending up in general waste than if you put it in the blue bin. Why? Glass is expensive to recycle. Businesses can save money by moving the glass out of the recycling bin into the trash. It's easier to do this with segregated bins.

This kind of “cherry picking” is not in line with government guidelines but sometimes it happens.

Segregated Bins

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Tips & Suggestions

Broken glass can be recycled but please wrap it up with newspaper and bag it to protect workers and to keep pieces together.

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Tips & Suggestions

Remove caps and recycle those separately.

Caps are usually plastic or metal. Removing them from the glass bottles increases their chance of being recycled.

Info & Insights

Note: not all glass is recyclable.

Recyclable:

Glass jars and bottles for food, drink and some medicines - usually clear, green, or brown
Weck & Mason jars (but be sure to remove all metal clamps and rubber rings), Ikea jars

Not recyclable:

makeup & skin care bottles
decorative glass
glass that has been treated to withstand high temperatures - for example glass used for cooking like pyrex or corelle

Recycle Lids and Caps Separately

Remove lids and caps and put them in the appropriate metal recycling bins (unless the lids are rusty in which case, throw them out).

It is not necessary to remove the aluminum foil capsule wrapped around the top of wine bottles. Only separate metal parts that are easy to remove.

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Last Updated: Aug 16, 2023