🔵 Blue Bin
Verre · blue lid
Bottles, jars and flacons.
Nothing else made of glass. Packaging glass melts at a different temperature from drinking glass, ceramics and window panes.
Note
Glass recycles endlessly with no loss of quality — but one ceramic shard ruins a whole batch.
What goes here
Packaging glass only
- Glass bottles wine, beer, water, oil
- Glass jars jam, sauce, preserves
- Glass yoghurt pots
- Empty glass syrup bottles
- Flacons † perfume, condiments
- Coloured and clear alike † no need to separate
Never in here
- ❌ Drinking glasses → general waste
- ❌ Champagne flutes → general waste
- ❌ Porcelain & stoneware → general waste
- ❌ Tiles & earthenware → déchèterie
- ❌ Window & door glass → déchèterie
- ❌ Glass wool → déchèterie
- ❌ Light bulbs & tubes → shop take-back
- ❌ Mirrors & Pyrex † → déchèterie
Not here — where it goes instead
🟡 Lids and caps come off
Metal jar lids and plastic bottle caps go in the yellow bin, not in the blue bin. The jar itself comes here. See Yellow Bin — Recyclables.
🟢 Green bin — trash
Anything you drink from or eat off — glasses, flutes, porcelain plates — even though it looks like glass. See Green Bin — General Waste.
🔴 Déchèterie
Flat glass: windows, glazed joinery, mirrors. Also glass wool insulation. See Déchèterie — Recycling Centre.
♻️ Keep it instead
A jar with its lid is a free storage container. Fill it before you recycle it. See Second Life — Reuse.
Handling
- Empty and scraped. No need to rinse — the furnace does the rest.
- No bags in the container. Drop the glass in loose and take the bag home.
Printable sheet
Blue Bin — A4 sheet (PDF) — print at 100 % scale, single sided. All nine sheets together: all-sheets.pdf.
Items marked † are the general French sorting rule for this stream, not entries in SMECTOM’s Mémo Tri 2026. Everything else on this page is taken from the mémo. See Waste Sorting Guide for the overview and Waste & Recycling Collection for the pickup schedule and access card.