G - L of Recycling

Gas cylinders remain the property of the issuing company. Please return them to the address shown on the label.

If there is no ownership address on the cylinder, contact Taylor's Industrial Services on 01224 873972 for advice. There may be a charge for disposal.

Empty camping gas cylinders can go in your general waste bin. If your cylinder is leaking contact the manufacturer, the Fire Brigade or Aberdeen Calor Centre on 01224 637575 for advice. 

Glass bottles and jars can be recycled at your local  Recycling Centre or as part of your Kerbside Recycling Service. Please remove all corks, metal lids, or plastic tops before recycling. Blue glass bottles and jars should be recycled in the green glass bin.

Please note that we cannot accept: window pane glass or mirrors, glass from picture frames or photo frames, broken glass tumblers, light bulbs, spectacles, ceramics or glass ovenware such as Pyrex dishes for recycling. These are made to a different 'recipe' from glass bottles and jars, and melt at different temperatures, which means they cannot be recycled together. Pyrex ovenware, for example, is designed to withstand high temperatures in your oven. This means it needs very high temperatures to melt it for recycling.

Never put broken glass in your kerbside recycling box. Instead, dispose of it carefully (e.g. wrapped in newspaper) in your general waste bin.

Reuse glass jars as storage containers or for home made preserves or pickles.

Returnable glass bottles should always be returned to the supplier.

Instead of buying glassware for a party, why not take advantage of glass hire companies? Tesco and Oddbins offer a glass hire service.

Leaving cut grass on your lawn allows the nutrients in the cut material to return to the soil to be used by the growing lawn. This can also reduce your need for additional chemical lawn fertilisers.

Grass cuttings can be easily composted at home, in a home compost unit, or simply by spreading the grass cuttings on the garden as mulch. If you have a lot of grass cuttings, it is best not to add them to your home compost unit all at once, especially if they are wet as this can slow down the composting process. Try to dry the grass cuttings first by leaving them outside the bin in a heap, or to mix them thoroughly with drier items such as shrub prunings chopped small, dead flowers, or sawdust.

Alternatively, put the cuttings in your brown bin if you have one, or take to your local Recycling Centre.

Unwanted hearing aids can be sent to the Hearing Aid Appeal, run by Help the Aged. The hearing aids are tested and cleaned and sent to India, where they are desperately needed. Please send your unwanted hearing aids to:

Hearing Aid Appeal, Help the Aged, FREEPOST LON 13616, London EC1B 1PS or visit http://www.helptheaged.org.uk

Cartridge World, Rosemount Place, Aberdeen Tel: 633111, offer an ink cartridge refill service.

Also, See Cartridges in A - C of Recycling

The kerbside recycling collection service allows residents to recycle food and drink cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, foil and foil trays in the black box and paper and cardboard in the white bag. See our Kerbside Recycling Collection page for further information.

Used paper kitchen towels can be added to your home compost unit.

You can buy recycled kitchen towels from supermarkets.

Reduce the number you use by buying re-useable dishcloths.

All material placed out for collection in your general bin is sent to landfill. Your waste is not sorted prior to disposal.

We currently send your waste to the landfill site at Stoneyhill in Peterhead. This is a finite store for refuse. If we all reduce the amount of waste we produce, and recycle as much as we can, the space in this landfill will last us much longer.

Aberdeen City Council has been given a limit on the amount of biodegradable waste we can dispose of to landfill each year. If we go over this limit, we are liable for financial penalties under the Landfill Allowance Scheme, in addition to our existing disposal costs, which are increasing annually.