Don't just recycle, re-use your jars and bottles from Stokes.

Recycling Stokes glassware

 
Stokes glassware - bottles and jars - are as much a part of the Stokes distinctive brand as the logo and the delicious taste.

We share the growing concern to ensure that bottles and jars are either recycled or re-used. Put the glass back into new glass and a little fun back into the jars.

From the recycle bin, glass is taken to a glass treatment plant where it is sorted by colour and washed to remove any impurities. 

The glass is then crushed and melted, then moulded into new products such as bottles and jars. Or it may be used for alternative purposes such as brick manufacture, road building aggregates or decorative uses.

5 facts about recycling

• Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without loss in quality or purity.
• Glass is made from readily available materials such as sand, soda ash, limestone and 'cullet', - the industry term for furnace-ready recycled glass.
• The only material used in greater volume than cullet is sand. The materials are mixed, or 'batched', heated to a temperature of 2,600 to 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and moulded to the desired shape.
• Recycled glass can be substituted for up to 95% of raw materials.
• Over a ton of natural resources are saved for every ton of glass we recycle. 

  10 fun ways to re-use Stokes glassware 

• Put coloured sand or beads into your jar with a tea light to create a lantern.
• Make a 'happiness jar' to store happy memories, tickets, notes concert passes etc.
• Serve drinks to friends and family in your glass jars. Cocktails look great.
• Use your jars to pickle vegetables.
• Create a stained glass effect using Sharpies for a beautiful tea light lantern. 

• Use it as a salad jar for packed lunches. Put the dressing at the bottom and layer the salad items on top.
• Use them to store bathroom items such as cotton buds (without the plastic stem).
• Use empty jars as a piggy bank - perhaps one for each value of coin.
• Paint and distress your jar to create shabby chic effect vases.

Pancake day, or 'Stokes Lemon Curd Day as we call it. Some tasty ideas here.

Stokes sauces, ketchups, mayonnaise, relishes and chutneys are all a question of taste. Take the taste test here.

A medley of marvellous mustards - flavoursome recipes for flavour packed mustards here.

If good food makes you happy
...adding Stokes will make you smile ;)

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