Glass

Please put your used glass (only hollow glass, please no flat glass) into the containers provided, separated into the colors white, brown and green. White glass can only be recycled from sorted white glass. Similarly, brown glass can only be recycled from brown glass. If too much of the wrong color glass ends up in a glass container, only green glass can be recycled. Blue glass therefore also belongs in the green glass container. Green glass is the least valuable glass recycling product.

Under Recycling islandsafter selecting "Locations" you will find an overview of the recycling islands in Erlangen. By removing all non-relevant ticks (i.e. all except glass (blue)), you will then receive an overview of all used glass container locations. You can move the interactive map so that the area relevant to you is enlarged, for example.

Littering of recycling container locations in Erlangen

Deposits and soiling of the recycling container sites are noticeably increasing at some locations. Bulky waste, clothing and cardboard are being deposited outside the containers despite signs indicating this. The recycling container sites are exclusively for the disposal of the designated waste and other items are illegal waste deposits for which there are legal alternatives.

Bulky waste can be collected if required (bulky waste collection: sperrmuell@stadt.erlangen.de) or taken to the waste transfer station (Am Hafen 5a, 91056 Erlangen Tel.: 09131 992600).

Illegal disposal and dumping is expressly prohibited and punishable by law.

The littering of the city is not a pretty sight; it damages the environment and it means high financial and personnel costs to remove the deposits. These costs must ultimately be borne by all citizens.