What goes in?
You can recycle empty glass bottles or jars of all colours shapes and sizes including:
- wine and beer bottles
- food bottles and jars including sauce and jam jars
- coffee jars
- pharmaceutical bottles
Please leave lids and bottle tops on as they will be sorted and recycled.
What stays out?
- drinking glasses
- window pane glass
- ceramics
- Pyrex
- crockery
- light bulbs and thermometers (these can be recycled at your local tidy tip)
- mirrors
- spectacles
Glass collection
We provide a box for collecting glass bottles and jars to the areas below. We collect this fortnightly on the same day as your refuse collection, except for Caddington and East Hyde.
- Aley Green
- Barton-le-Clay
- Billington
- Bushmead (Luton)
- Butterfield Green
- Chalgrave
- Chalton (near Dunstable)
- Eaton Bray
- Eggington
- Heath & Reach
- Hockliffe
- Kensworth
- Pepperstock
- Sharpenhoe
- Slip End
- Stanbridge
- Streatley
- Studham
- Sundon
- Tebworth
- Tilsworth
- Toddington
- Totternhoe
- Whipsnade
- Wingfield
- Woodside
Caddington has a Thursday glass / Friday refuse collection.
East Hyde has a Monday glass / Tuesday refuse collection.
If your village or town is not listed, please take your glass bottles and jars to a bottle bank.
Order a box for glass
Find out how to order a box for glass.