Recycle Utah | Park City, Utah |Glass

Glass

Glass is separated into two different bins at our main collection center. These bins are side by side at the east end of the covered part of the center. The left bin is for brown glass (mostly beer bottles) and the right bin is for clear, green and blue glass. Caps, lids and corks should be removed but labels are okay. Be careful about not dropping cardboard separators from your boxes or plastic bags into the bins. Look for the stairs between the bins to get up where it's easier to get your glass into the bin.

What goes in?

all bottles

all jars

glass containers

What does not go in?

These are the things we're regularly picking out of the glass bin. Help us out by not putting them there in the first place:

cardboard
plastic bags
ceramics
light bulbs
cookware
pane glass
mirrors
brown glass in the green bin and vice versa - Please separate.
food residue, napkins and other trash

What not to worry about?

Don't worry about breaking the bottles inside the bin. Go ahead, release some stress. Just be careful to keep the glass inside the bins as broken glass is dangerous and Recycle Utah staff are often working around and behind the bins where you may not see them. Also you'll be surprised how far the broken pieces will fly.

Where does it go?

Brown glass is hauled to a recycling broker in Salt Lake City. From there, it is loaded onto rail cars and shipped to Coors Brewery in Colorado to make new beer bottles.

Green and clear glass is hauled to a processing plant in Salt Lake City. After the glass is sorted and cleaned, it is melted into cullet and used as the base for fiberglass. Owens Corning is the end-user of our clear/green glass.

Blue glass is sorted out separately and processed by a facility in northern Utah for use in counter tops and terrazzo floor tiles.