Which councils collect glass from home?
As of 24 Oct 2026. Worked out from each council's own published rules.
Bottles and jars. A separate glass box or bin counts. Here's which councils collect them from your home, and where they go if yours doesn't.
England
283 of 294 councils collect glass from home.
Collected from home (283)
- Adur
- Amber Valley
- Arun
- Ashfield
- Ashford
- Babergh
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bassetlaw
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blaby
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Bolsover
- Bolton
- Boston
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bradford
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brent
- Brentwood
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Broadland
- Bromley
- Bromsgrove
- Broxbourne
- Broxtowe
- Buckinghamshire
- Burnley
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Cambridge
- Camden
- Cannock Chase
- Canterbury
- Castle Point
- Central Bedfordshire
- Charnwood
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Cherwell
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Chesterfield
- Chichester
- Chorley
- City of London
- Colchester
- Cornwall
- Cotswold
- County Durham
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Croydon
- Dacorum
- Darlington
- Dartford
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- Doncaster
- Dorset
- Dover
- Dudley
- Ealing
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Devon
- East Hampshire
- East Hertfordshire
- East Lindsey
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Staffordshire
- East Suffolk
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Elmbridge
- Enfield
- Epping Forest
- Epsom and Ewell
- Erewash
- Fenland
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Forest of Dean
- Fylde
- Gateshead
- Gedling
- Gloucester
- Gravesham
- Great Yarmouth
- Greenwich
- Guildford
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Harborough
- Haringey
- Harlow
- Harrow
- Hart
- Hartlepool
- Hastings
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hertsmere
- High Peak
- Hillingdon
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Horsham
- Hounslow
- Hull
- Huntingdonshire
- Hyndburn
- Ipswich
- Isle of Wight
- Isles of Scilly
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Kingston upon Thames
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancaster
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lewes
- Lewisham
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- Liverpool
- Luton
- Maidstone
- Maldon
- Malvern Hills
- Manchester
- Mansfield
- Medway
- Melton
- Merton
- Mid Devon
- Mid Suffolk
- Mid Sussex
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Newark and Sherwood
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Newham
- North Devon
- North East Derbyshire
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Hertfordshire
- North Kesteven
- North Lincolnshire
- North Norfolk
- North Northamptonshire
- North Somerset
- North Tyneside
- North Warwickshire
- North West Leicestershire
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Oadby and Wigston
- Oldham
- Oxford
- Pendle
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Preston
- Redbridge
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Redditch
- Reigate and Banstead
- Ribble Valley
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Rochford
- Rossendale
- Rother
- Rotherham
- Rugby
- Runnymede
- Rushcliffe
- Rushmoor
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sevenoaks
- Sheffield
- Shropshire
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Derbyshire
- South Gloucestershire
- South Hams
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- South Norfolk
- South Oxfordshire
- South Ribble
- South Staffordshire
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- Spelthorne
- St Albans
- St. Helens
- Stafford
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stevenage
- Stockport
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Stroud
- Sunderland
- Surrey Heath
- Sutton
- Swale
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Tamworth
- Tandridge
- Teignbridge
- Telford and Wrekin
- Tendring
- Tewkesbury
- Thanet
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Torbay
- Torridge
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Tunbridge Wells
- Uttlesford
- Vale of White Horse
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwick
- Watford
- Waverley
- Wealden
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Berkshire
- West Devon
- West Lancashire
- West Lindsey
- West Northamptonshire
- West Oxfordshire
- West Suffolk
- Westminster
- Westmorland and Furness
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wirral
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Worthing
- Wychavon
- Wyre
- Wyre Forest
- York
Not collected from home (11)
| Council | Where they go instead |
|---|---|
| Bracknell Forest | Banks or drop-off points |
| Exeter | Banks or drop-off points |
| Fareham | Banks or drop-off points |
| Gosport | Banks or drop-off points |
| Havant | Banks or drop-off points |
| Kirklees | Banks or drop-off points |
| Northumberland | Recycling centre |
| Portsmouth | Banks or drop-off points |
| Reading | Banks or drop-off points |
| Test Valley | Banks or drop-off points |
| Wokingham | Banks or drop-off points |
Not enough data yet: Cumberland, North Yorkshire.
Scotland
18 of 32 councils collect glass from home.
Collected from home (18)
- Aberdeen City
- City of Edinburgh
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Glasgow City
- Midlothian
- Moray
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney Islands
- Renfrewshire
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
Not collected from home (14)
| Council | Where they go instead |
|---|---|
| Aberdeenshire | Banks or drop-off points |
| Angus | Banks or drop-off points |
| Argyll and Bute | Banks or drop-off points |
| Clackmannanshire | Banks or drop-off points |
| Dumfries and Galloway | Banks or drop-off points |
| Dundee City | Banks or drop-off points |
| Fife | Banks or drop-off points |
| Highland | Banks or drop-off points |
| Inverclyde | Banks or drop-off points |
| Perth and Kinross | Banks or drop-off points |
| Scottish Borders | Banks or drop-off points |
| Shetland Islands | Banks or drop-off points |
| West Dunbartonshire | Banks or drop-off points |
| West Lothian | Banks or drop-off points |
Wales
22 of 22 councils collect glass from home.
Collected from home (22)
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Isle of Anglesey
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
Northern Ireland
10 of 11 councils collect glass from home.
Collected from home (10)
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Belfast
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Derry City and Strabane
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Mid and East Antrim
- Mid Ulster
- Newry, Mourne and Down
Not collected from home (1)
| Council | Where they go instead |
|---|---|
| Lisburn and Castlereagh | Recycling centre |
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Sources
- Each council's own website. Our item pages and council pages link the council page each answer comes from.
- Find your council on GOV.UK