Glass Depot

GLASS DEPOT

The District of Peachland has arranged for a Glass Recycling Bin to be placed at the Operations Yard at 5379 Princeton Avenue. The Glass Bin will be ONLY for Glass jars and bottles (all colours, emptied and rinsed). Not accepted into the Glass Bin are: cookware, drinking glasses, windows, mirrors or china. Please note this is for glass only. No other recyclables will be accepted.

The Operations yard is open Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM and is located 5 km up Princeton Avenue from Hwy 97. This glass depot is closer than going to West Kelowna, saving residents gas and energy.

A glass bottle that is sent to a landfill can take up to a million years to break down. By contrast, it takes as little as 30 days for a recycled glass bottle to leave your kitchen recycling bin and appear on a store shelf as a new glass container.

Glass Recycling is Sustainable

Glass containers are 100 percent recyclable, which means they can be recycled repeatedly, again and again, with no loss of purity or quality in the glass.

Glass Recycling Conserves Natural Resources

Every ton of glass that is recycled saves more than a ton of the raw materials needed to create new glass, including 1,300 pounds of sand; 410 pounds of soda ash and 380 pounds of limestone.

Glass Recycling Saves Energy

Making new glass means heating sand and other substances to a temperature of 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit, which requires a lot of energy and creates a lot of industrial pollution. One of the first steps in glass recycling is to crush the glass and create a product called “cullet.” Making recycled glass products from cullet consumes 40 percent less energy than making new glass from raw materials because cullet melts at a much lower temperature.