Glass recycling in Leeds green bins to begin

Households across Leeds will be able to recycle glass bottles and jars in their green bins for the first time from the 1st of August.

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00:00Leeds households will be able to recycle glass bottles and jars in green bins for the first

00:06time from the 1st of August. This includes all colours of glass, so everything from wine

00:11and beer bottles to jam jars and pasta sauce jars can be recycled in Leeds green bins.

00:17Councillor Mohamed Rafiq has more details.

00:20Over 50% of bottles and jars actually end up in the general waste bin, which is in the

00:27black bin. Now we're saying that all that could go into the green bin, which amounts

00:35to 11,600 tonnes a year. We do have a big network of bottle banks, one of the biggest

00:43in the country, 300 sites, 700 bottle banks where people could actually take their bottles

00:50and jars for recycling. But this actually is about bringing recycling closer to home.