Recycle your glass this Bank Holiday
Warwickshire Waste Partnership is advising residents to recycle glass rather than put it in landfill this Bank Holiday weekend.
With many parties and barbecues being planned for Bank Holiday weekend, make the most of your kerbside recycling collection or Warwickshire’s Household Waste Recycling Centres to recycle your wine and beer bottles.
Every tonne of glass recycled reduces CO2 by 270 kilograms, so recycling just one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a 100 watt light bulb for almost an hour.
Glass sent to landfill will never rot away, but recycled glass can be processed into more glass bottles and jars, construction products such as bricks and concrete blocks, glassphalt for road surfacing and processed sand.
For further information on recycling please visit http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/recycling. Alternatively telephone Warwickshire County Council’s Waste Projects Team on 01926 412458 or e-mail waste@warwickshire.gov.uk.
Warwickshire’s household waste recycling centres are situated at Grendon, Judkins, Shipston, Hunters Lane, Cherry Orchard, Princes Drive, Stockton, Burton Farm and Wellesbourne. Details, including information regarding the opening times, location and the materials that can be recycled, can be found at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/hwrc