Bottle Banks

Have you noticed bottle banks only take bottles and jars but nothing larger than say a litre size bottle WHY? I cannot understand in this day and age why they don't have a section where you can put larger items such as panes of glass or larger size bottles. Many times i go to our local bottle bank and find stuff to large to put in the bank just left at the side for some other poor sod to dispose off.

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Window glass and bottle glass are two different things, they have vastly different melting points. Mix them and the lot ends up as land fill.

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Doc I don't use a bottle bank, we are allowed to put bottles of any kind/ colour/ size/ in the green recycle bin . It does stipulate 'no window glass' but that we can take to the recycle depo.

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Our used bottles go to the tip. There are different bins for the different colours & the entry to them seems large enough for bigger bottles, we can take plate glass there as well but it goes in a different place.

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If I have any glass bottles they go into the cardboard and paper bin, which we are allowed to do.

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Hi

Nothing more annoying than a posh lady in a massive 4x4 dropping off 2 wine bottles at the recycling.

Do they not have any understanding at all?

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Same here Meg.

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Same here Meg, 'cept ours is the brown bin - it doesn't specify what type of glass you can put in and it's also for foil and certain types of plastic.

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Obviously not, if the 4X4 is on a lease, when the realization comes home, there will be a crate of wine bottles.

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My glass bottles and jars go in the red box and are collected fortnightly with the green garden refuse bins!