FAQ

Glassbag.ie is a doorstep glass bottle and jar collection service covering Dublin, North Wicklow, North Kildare and South Meath. We give households and businesses an easier alternative to the bottle bank for recycling their glass waste — collected directly from your door each month.

Choose which options your needs (Monthly or Once Off collections)

Once you have signed up, you can use an existing storage container or bag (I.e. IKEA, Dunnes, etc) to store your glass. We will then come to collect on the day specified by your EIRCODE (see calendar) and leave with you with one of our glass bags for any future collections that will take place.

Our service is affordable, and we make it possible to choose options that suit your consumption levels the best. Check our pricing pagefor more information.

You can sign up very easily via our pricing page. Once you select the option best suited for you, just follow the checkout process and review the email confirmation for more information

Great! If you just signed up, you don’t need to do anything!

We will automatically schedule your collection on the nearest or next day for your area based on your EIRCODE (see calendar). If you’re a new customer, use your own bag/container and then we will leave you with one of our bags for any future collections you may need! Any questions? Email – info@glassbag.ie

We collect glass in each area once a month. We collect from monthly subscribers in
accordance with our collection calendar and will also
try and schedule Once-Off collections on the same day. This is flexible so please get in touch if have a specific request.

We cover Dublin (all areas and postcodes), North Wicklow (Bray, Greystones, Delgany), North Kildare (Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip) and South Meath (Ashbourne, Ratoath, Dunshaughlin, Dunboyne). Check our collection calendar for your area's schedule, or contact us to confirm we cover your location.

Our bags are quite large. It can hold up 15kg of glass which roughly translates into around 60 or so beer bottles and 22 bottles of wine. You don’t need to fill it to the brim, but we made it extra big just in-case.

All types of mixed color bottles, jars and other non-broken glasses. Basically, if you would put it in a bottle bank, you can put in your bag.

We made sure that our bags are completely re-usable and so you ideally won’t need another bag. If something happen, please get in touch via info@glassbag.ie .

We will send you a confirmation email after the order is placed with the collection date. Please feel free to get in touch if this does not suit.

Please wash the bottles as much as you can. It will be your bag for the next while so the cleaner the better.

Please get in touch with us at info@glassbag.ie if you wish to cancel the service.

No problem - please get in touch with us at info@glassbag.ie and we will see what we can do.

No worries at all. We charge €2 per month if you want to sign up for the month and €20 per year if you sign up for the year.

That’s okay. Please get in touch with us over at info@glassbag.ieand we will try and arrange a collection as soon as possible!

That is not a problem with Glassbag.ie – you can bring the bag with you to your new home but please make sure to let us know about the change of address. Contact us at info@glassbag.ie

Get in touch!

Yes! GlassBag is a convenient alternative to the bottle bank. Instead of driving to your nearest bottle bank and queuing up, we collect your glass bottles and jars directly from your doorstep. No more loading heavy bags into the car or searching for a bottle bank near you — we come to you on your scheduled collection day. We cover all of Dublin, North Wicklow, North Kildare and South Meath.

Yes, we offer commercial glass recycling collection for businesses including restaurants, pubs, hotels and offices across our service areas (Dublin, North Wicklow, North Kildare and South Meath). If you have a large volume of glass bottles and jars to recycle, please get in touch and we'll arrange a collection plan that suits your business needs.

Most bin companies in Dublin and Ireland don't collect glass as part of their regular bin collection — glass bottles and jars can't go in the green recycling bin or the general waste bin. You normally have to bring glass to a bottle bank yourself. GlassBag solves this by collecting glass directly from your door each month, so you never need to make a separate trip to the bottle bank again.

We only accept intact glass bottles and jars — the same items you'd bring to a bottle bank. Broken glass, drinking glasses, window glass, mirrors and ceramics cannot be recycled through our service. If you need to dispose of broken glass in Ireland, wrap it carefully in newspaper and place it in your general waste bin for safety.

All glass we collect is taken to a licensed glass recycling facility in Ireland. Glass is one of the most sustainable materials — it can be recycled endlessly without losing quality. Your bottles and jars are sorted, crushed into cullet, and melted down to make new glass products. By using GlassBag, you're helping to reduce landfill waste and supporting glass recycling in Ireland.

GlassBag is a separate service from Ireland's Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). The DRS applies to plastic bottles and aluminium cans which carry a deposit, and these are returned via reverse vending machines. GlassBag focuses specifically on glass bottle and jar recycling — items that aren't covered by the deposit return scheme. You can use both services side by side for complete recycling coverage.

We provide doorstep glass collection across Dublin (all areas and postcodes), North Wicklow (Bray, Greystones, Delgany), North Kildare (Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip) and South Meath (Ashbourne, Ratoath, Dunshaughlin, Dunboyne). Check our collection calendar to see your next collection date, or contact us to confirm we cover your location.

Glass doesn't break down in landfill — a glass bottle can take over a million years to decompose. Recycling glass saves energy, reduces CO2 emissions, and conserves raw materials. In Ireland, glass bottles and jars shouldn't go in your household waste bin or recycling bin — they need to go to a bottle bank or be collected separately. GlassBag makes glass recycling easy by collecting from your doorstep each month, starting from just €8 per month.