- Deposit glass at your nearest recycling bank by throwing them into the appropriate container.
- Many supermarkets have glass recycling banks, enabling you to recycling glass on your weekly shop.
- Make sure you wash out the bottle or jar before putting it into recycling bins.
- Reuse glass whenever possible. Jars can be used as small conatiners and bottles can be used as vases.
Glass containers can be recycled again and again. However, each year in Canada, six million tonnes of glass are thrown away. A littered glass bottle will take a whopping one million years to break down! And for every tonne of new glass that needs to be produced, 12.6 kg of air pollution is created; recycling glass reduces that pollution by 14-20%. To put it in perspective, one recycled glass bottle saves enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for four hours!
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