Drop off points for glass recycling

Our 4-bin waste service started in July 2023.

You can no longer put glass bottles and jars in your yellow-lidded mixed recycling bin.

Some residents need to take their glass bottles and jars to a glass recycling drop-off point. 

This mostly affects residents in:

  • Large apartment buildings
  • Certain residential developments.
  • Some densely populated streets

Glass recycling drop-off points are easy to find and have purple-lidded bins.

If you need to use a glass recycling drop-off point, we notified you by mail.

You can take eligible drink containers, like aluminium cans and glass or plastic bottles to your nearest Container Deposit Scheme refund point. You get a 10 cent refund for every eligible container. Find your nearest refund point on the CDS website.

Find your nearest glass recycling drop-off point

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Pottery Court car park – north-west corner
    2. Corner of Pottery Court and Gumbri Place
    3. Gilpin Park

    Affected properties:

      • 1-99 Brickworks Drive
      • 1-12/1 Gumbri Place
      • 80 Dawson Street
      • 1-8 O’Brien Sisters Lane
      • 1-6 Pottery Court

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Manallack Street – laneway next to number 3

    Affected properties:

      • 1A-19 Manallack Street
      • 8-22A Railway Place (even numbered properties only)
      • 1-20/20, 30, 32, 1/32, 32A, 1/32A Union Street

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Randazzo Park – south-east corner at the end of Blair Street

    Affected properties:

      • 209-254A Albert Street
      • 1-22 Annie Borat Close
      • 47-57 Blair Street (odd numbered properties only)
      • 1-26 Eva Buhlert Close
      • 1-30/5 Evans Street

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Fleming Park – near the corner of Elsebury Avenue and Victoria Street

    Affected properties:

      • 174-184A Blyth Street (even numbered properties only)
      • 1-41 Elesbury Avenue
      • 2-26 Elsie Mews
      • 71-79A Victoria Street (odd numbered properties only)

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Corner of Gear Street and Bill Barry Close (in driveway)
    2. Corner of Gear Street and Dianella Walkway

    Affected properties:

      • 1-21 Dianella Walkway
      • 1-4 Edwina Way
      • 1-45 Gear Street
      • 1-20 Lomandra Walkway
      • 1-34 Mary Moodie Way (even numbered properties only)
      • 12-18B Miller Street (even numbered properties only)

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Ivory Way median strip (between 7 and 8 Ivory Way)

    Affected properties:

      • 1-27 Ivory Way
      • 21-45 Roberts Street (odd numbered properties only)
      • 22-40 Ryan Street (even numbered properties only)
      • 246-256 Stewart Street (even numbered properties only)

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Nunan Street - north-west corner in small grassy area

    Affected properties:

      • 1-27 Galada Way (odd numbered properties only)
      • 55-83 Harrison Street (odd numbered properties only)
      • 1-28 Nunan Street

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Campbell Reserve – north-west corner near Moore Street
    2. Moore Street – near the gate at the eastern end
    3. Corner of Beaumonde Street and Mill Place

    Affected properties:

      • 2-49 Beaumonde Street
      • 1-8 Berg Place
      • 76-80 Glengyle Street (even numbered properties only)
      • 3 and 5 Kirkby Street
      • 1-8 Mill Place
      • 119-143 Moore Street (odd numbered properties only)

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Brosnan Community Park – opposite Woiwurrung Crescent
    2. Corner of Oriley Road, Jika Street and Grassland Avenue
    3. Manna Gum Court  - southern end
    4. Near the bus stop on Stockade Avenue
    5. Parkland Mews and Urquhart Street

    Affected properties:

      • 1-35 Grassland Avenue (odd numbered properties only)
      • 1-23 Manna Gum Court
      • 1-11 Parklane Mews
      • 1-32 Red Box Street
      • 1- 40-50 Stockade Avenue
      • 1-58 Tanderum Drive (even numbered properties only)
      • 151-187 Urquhart Street (odd numbered properties only)
      • 1-34 Watchtower Road
      • 1-62 Woiwurung Crescent

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Corner of Snapshot Drive and Camera Walk
    2. Corner of Focus Drive and Camera Walk
    3. Corner of Ronald Street and Danthonia Street, in Edgars Creek Parkland

    Affected properties:

      • 3-24 Aperture Street
      • 4-120 Camera Walk
      • 3-19 Cyan Way
      • 2-47 Danthonia Street
      • 3-32 Focus Drive
      • 1-34 Pixel Circuit
      • 16-26 Portrait Way (even numbered properties only)
      • 1-32 Red Box Street
      • 3-22 Rouse Street
      • 47-65 Snapshot Drive (odd numbered properties only)
      • 72-76 Snapshot Drive (even numbered properties only
      • 47-111 Spectrum Way (odd numbered properties only)

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Next to the village entrance near Willowtree Lane
    2. Community Centre waste area

    Affected properties:

      • Federation Village, 16-24 Box Forest Road

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Community centre waste area
    2. Workshop
    3. Waste area at eastern end of apartment building
    4. Waste area at western end of apartment building

    Affected properties:

    • Gowanbrae Retirement Village, 1-339/1A Gowanbrae Drive

  • Glass recycling drop-off point locations:

    1. Waste area at corner of Magnolia Drive (west) and Tulip Close
    2. Waste area at corner of Magnolia Drive (east) and Rose Place
    3. Corner of Magnolia Drive (east) and Gerbera Ct
    4. Corner of Magnolia Drive (west) and Gerbera Ct

    Affected properties:

      • 1-175/146 Boundary Road

How to recycle your glass correctly

Follow the steps below to recycle your glass bottles and jars:

  • Collect glass bottles and jars at home.
  • Find your nearest drop-off point and take your glass bottles and jars for recycling.
  • Glass bottles and jars must be empty.
  • Lids should be firmly attached.
  • No need to remove labels from bottles and jars.
  • Put glass bottles and jars in the drop-off bins loose, not in plastic bags.
  • Broken glass bottles or jars can be put in the drop-off bin.
  • Put loose lids and plastic bags in the general rubbish bin located nearby.

For more information on what can and can’t go in glass recycling bins, please visit our glass recycling webpage.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • Broken glass makes other items like cardboard, paper and plastic hard to recycle. By putting your

    glass bottles and jars in a separate bin or drop-off point, more of it can be recycled into new things.

    It also reduces contamination in your mixed recycling bin, making sure that paper, card and plastics can be recovered effectively, improving the quality and value of these materials to be turned into new products.

    Glass does not degrade through the recycling process, so it can be recycled again and again.

  • Most glass recycling drop-off points will have their bins collected weekly.

    We will regularly monitor and review the collection frequency and number of bins at each drop-off point to ensure they are meeting the needs of the serviced properties.

  • To meet the State Government’s requirements, the majority of households across Merri-bek will have their own glass recycling bin or use a shared bin if you live in a unit, townhouse, or apartment with communal land to store bins.

    Glass recycling drop-off points will only be used by properties identified by Council with unique needs. These include large apartment buildings, certain developments and some densely populated streets that do not have space to store their own glass recycling bins.

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Monitoring and evaluation of glass drop-off points

Read the results of Reground's evaluation of Merri-bek's glass collection points between July and October 2023 in this report (PDF 1.8MB)