By Anna Ellis • Published: 03 Aug 2026 • 10:27 • 1 minute readAlicante councillors admiring the city’s first transparent glass recycling container. Alicante has unveiled the Valencian Community’s first transparent glass recycling container in a new campaign aimed at boosting recycling rates and dispelling common misconceptions about what happens to glass after it is collected. Transparent recycling container launched in AlicanteAlicante has installed the first transparent glass recycling container in the Valencian Community in a campaign to encourage more people to recycle and tackle common myths about what happens to glass after it is collected. The new container is intended to increase public confidence in the recycling process by showing exactly how glass is collected and separated from other waste. Organisers hope the campaign will encourage more people to recycle regularly, helping Alicante improve its environmental performance while reducing waste sent to landfill.