Glass is collected from the bottle banks and kerbside scheme providers, keeping the clear, brown and green glass separate.
The glass is transported to the processing plant where the bottles and jars are washed and contaminants like plastic sleeves are removed.
Magnets are used to remove any metal contaminants such as caps or collars.
It is then crushed into small pieces called cullet and transported to the glass factory.
At the factory the cullet is mixed with the other raw materials needed to make glass (sand, limestone and soda ash) and melted into a large furnace.
Molten glass from the furnace is poured out through channels, and cut into pieces called gobs, each of which is the right size to make a bottle jar.The molten glass is blown into moulds and then cooled to make new bottles and jars.