Garden waste - Green Map

Garden waste

• Glasgow City Council supplies brown bins for garden waste in some areas.  Tel: 0141 287 2063

• The Coach House Trust gives advice about composting, including the bokashi method which includes kitchen waste.  Tel:  0141 334 6888.

• Weeds, grass cuttings, leaves, dead flowers,  etc. can all be composted (see composting).  Try layering with shredded paper and soil.

• Biodegradable compost bags from The Natural Collection Tel:  0845 3677001, and Grassroots shop, Tel: 0141 353 3278.

Glass

• Glass jars and containers are very reusable in so many ways. Re-use wherever possible:  beekeepers and jam makers appreciate jars. 

• Return medicine bottles to chemists. 

• Buy powdered products in refill packs, if possible, and transfer to jars.  Remember to label clearly.

• Buy drinks in returnable bottles – and remember to return them!

• Recycle bottles and jars in bottle banks.  Don't dispose of flat glass or light bulbs in bottle banks, but carefully wrapped, in rubbish bins. 

• Fluorescent light bulbs:  consult Glasgow City Council - Recycling:  Tel:  0141 287 2063.  These contain mercury, and should be safely disposed of.

Glasses (Spectacles)

Charities such as Oxfam often take old spectacles, as does Boots the Chemist, for sending to developing countries.

Find out more

Vision Aid Overseas - UK spectacle recycling

Green Map

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Comments

[russell ecob]

hot composting soon to be available (again) in scotland (and in particular from Glasgow City Council), courtesy of WRAP

http://www.wrap.org.uk/