Commercial glass recycling

Enter your postcode above and tell us about your business’s glass recycling needs, including how often you need collections.

Our experts will review the details and prepare a tailored quote based on your collection frequency and location.

Once you’re happy with the quote, sign your commercial glass recycling contract to activate your service and schedule your collections.

Separating glass from general waste or mixed recycling can reduce overall commercial waste collection costs. Dedicated glass collections typically have a significantly lower cost per collection.

Recycling glass keeps materials in use longer, reducing the reliance on finite resources. By recycling commercial glass, your business is contributing to a circular economy.

Recycling glass reduces the demand for raw materials such as sand, soda ash, and limestone. This helps preserve natural landscapes and ecosystems, ensuring resources are available for future generations.

Glass takes thousands of years to decompose in landfills, occupying valuable space and contributing to waste management challenges. Using a dedicated commercial glass recycling collection diverts glass from landfills.

Recycling glass uses significantly less energy than manufacturing new glass from raw materials. This helps reduce carbon emissions associated with business waste and helps companies meet sustainability targets.

Used in cookware and laboratory glassware, this type of glass has a different melting point and cannot be recycled with bottle glass.

These materials do not melt at the same temperature as glass and can cause defects in new glass products.

They have different compositions and often contain coatings or treatments that make them unsuitable for recycling with bottled glass.

These contain metals and other materials incompatible with standard glass recycling.

This is lead glass with a different melting point and composition, making it unsuitable for standard glass recycling.

Glass with significant decoration, colouring, or lead content.

Restaurants contribute large volumes of glass waste, primarily from bottles and jars used for soft drinks, wine and cooking ingredients. Our restaurant waste collection services make it easy to manage this waste efficiently.

Pubs produce substantial amounts of glass waste, especially from beer and wine bottles. Pub waste collection services help streamline recycling and support the needs of the hospitality industry.

The hotel industry generates glass waste from food and beverage services, bars and in-room amenities. Hotel waste collection services help manage this consistently across large or multi-site premises.

Retailers, particularly those in food and beverage, generate glass waste through product packaging. Our retail waste collection services support regular recycling and help stores stay compliant.

Hospitals generate recyclable glass waste from food service areas, including kitchens and cafeterias. Hospital waste collection services ensure this is handled safely and in line with regulations.