Old bottles and screw-top jars end up in the glass container after use - often with a lid.
Is that ok or do caps need to be disposed of separately?
In Germany, around two million tons of old bottles and glasses end up as waste glass.
But many are unsure whether screw caps and corks are allowed in the bottle bank.
With or without a lid – which is correct?
Dispose of used glass with or without a lid?
Correct: the lid and cork must always be disposed of separately from the waste gas.
The Glass Recycling Association
(bvse)
points this out
on its website.
Screw caps belong in the yellow bin, corks in the appropriate collection containers in the recycling center.
Incidentally, there is a trick that makes it very easy to open screw caps that are stuck.
If a cap is accidentally left on the bottle, that's not a problem either: the sorting systems can filter out foreign bodies.
However, this requires more energy.
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What belongs in the old glass?
Even if it is a long way to the collection point: you should always dispose of empty bottles without a deposit, jars, perfume bottles or packaging for medicines in the used glass container.
Glass has the advantage that it is infinitely often and 100 percent recyclable - without any loss of quality.
According to
gruener-punkt.de
this saves
30 percent energy compared to the use of primary materials.
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In order for waste glass to be recycled, glass containers should be emptied but not rinsed separately.
Correct sorting is also important:
White glass container:
white glass
Amber glass container:
amber glass
Green glass container:
green glass and all other colors (blue, orange, colored etc.)
By the way: Old or broken drinking glasses do not belong in the used glass container.
These glasses are composed differently than glass for food packaging.
This can cause problems in recycling the old packaging glasses and producing new ones.
Drinking glasses therefore belong in the household waste.
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