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Glass food jars and bottles

How to recycle glass food jars and bottles

Glass food jars

Glass oil bottles

Mason jars

Glass food jars

Glass jars and bottles

Examples of jars

  • Mason jars
  • Pickle jars
  • Salsa jars
  • Jam jars 
  • Pasta sauce jars
  • Olive oil bottles
  • Cooking oil (vegetable, grapeseed etc.) and olive oil bottles
  • Apple sauce jars 

  • Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot

Put empty and clean glass food jars and bottles:

  • Into your blue cart for recycling
  • Take to a community recycling depot

Unbroken and broken glass jars can be placed loose in your blue cart. Stickers/labels are ok to leave on the glass jar.

Special instructions

  • Recycle large metal lids about the size of the palm of your hand (including lids with a rubber seal) in your blue cart. Smaller lids go in the garbage.
  • Put decorative mason jars (not for food) in your black cart as garbage. Paint, glue and other decorative materials cannot be recycled.
  • If you live in an apartment, townhouse or other multi-family complex, glass bottles should be accepted in your building's recycling program. If they are not accepted, please contact 311 to report this issue.

Map of community recycling depots

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