What to do with glass candle holders?

[neos]

We're doing some spring cleaning around the house and want to get rid of a lot of glass candle holders that have very little wax left in them.

Does anyone know what to do with them? I don't think they are recyclable. Is there any place that refills them?

[brunes]

We're doing some spring cleaning around the house and want to get rid of a lot of glass candle holders that have very little wax left in them.

Does anyone know what to do with them? I don't think there are recyclable. Is there any place that refills them?

Unlikely.

You might be able to find a candle that fits inside one.

Other than that.... post them on Freecycle, someone might have a use for them. If no one wants them you will have to throw them away. Most places don't recycle glass because it costs too much.

[neos]

Most places don't recycle glass because it costs too much.

I hope you're talking about this type of glass and not the glass containers in which most food items are found!

[Spidey]

We have glass recycling here. Glass is glass isnt it. All this stuff is crushed and melted down. We throw everything glass in the glass recycling.

[neos]

I was under the impression that this type of glass is not the same as container glass. I remember 2 years ago when the Quebec government banned smoking in restaurants, they said that people couldn't just dump their old ashtrays into the recycling bins. They had to be recycled a certain way....

[Spidey]

Things like this may people not want to recycle. Can we or cant we recyle this. Oh I have to phone and find out, or I have to go to a special place for this one thing.

Instead of finding out, people are just chucking stuff in the garbage, because they make it such a confusing thing to do soemtimes.

[stevethewheel]

There are definitely different kinds of glass. And the recycler only wants container glass, not window glass or the cheap flint glass that you find in discount shot glasses.

I would not recycle the candle holders.

[neos]

It's sad to think of these types candles/candle holders as "single use" items (or at least until all the wax melts). And yet there are untold numbers of them being sold in every pharmacy and department store for every occasion.

[brunes]

It's sad to think of these types candles/candle holders as "single use" items (or at least until all the wax melts). And yet there are untold numbers of them being sold in every pharmacy and department store for every occasion.

It is kind of sad, yes, but it is rely small impact overall. Glas is chemically inert, it is just melted sand, and over time natural pressure and erosion will return it to be granules of sand.

You should be more concerned with single use plastic items like all the stupid saran wrap type stuff on packaging materials, and inner liner bags on all frozen goods, plastic bubbles, and other plastic packaging. While they have their necessity, none of these things ever have a triangle on them and are thus not recyclable either, and they all have chemicals in them and do not biodegradable at all.