Global Glass Bottle Recycling Market Growth (Status and Outlook) 2026-2032
Description
The global Glass Bottle Recycling market size is predicted to grow from US$ 1485 million in 2025 to US$ 2331 million in 2032; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.0% from 2026 to 2032.
Glass bottle recycling is the process of collecting, sorting, cleaning, and crushing used or discarded glass bottles to reprocess them into new glass products or for other industrial applications. Recycling helps reduce environmental waste, conserve raw materials and energy, and promotes resource circularity, making it an essential part of sustainable development.
The upstream of the glass bottle recycling industry mainly consists of glass bottle manufacturers, beverage and alcoholic beverage producers, and collection channels such as supermarket return points, community recycling stations, and deposit-return systems. The midstream involves recycling processing, including sorting, cleaning, crushing, and melting. The downstream includes remanufacturing and industrial applications, where recycled glass can be used to produce new bottles (bottle-to-bottle recycling), construction materials, fiberglass, or other industrial raw materials, achieving resource circularity and industry value addition.
The main drivers of glass bottle recycling include environmental regulations and policies, increased awareness of sustainability among businesses and consumers, the adoption of deposit-return and incentive-based recycling systems, and advancements in recycling technology and automated sorting, which improve recovery rates and reduce costs. Risk factors include contamination or mixing of recycled glass, fluctuations in raw material prices, incomplete collection channels, rising transportation and processing costs, and uncertain market demand, all of which can affect recycling efficiency and industry profitability.
LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Glass Bottle Recycling Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Glass Bottle Recycling sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Glass Bottle Recycling sales for 2026 through 2032. With Glass Bottle Recycling sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Glass Bottle Recycling industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Glass Bottle Recycling landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Glass Bottle Recycling portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Glass Bottle Recycling market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Glass Bottle Recycling and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Glass Bottle Recycling.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Glass Bottle Recycling market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Clear Type
Green Type
Brown Type
Segmentation by Recycling Method:
Manual Collection
Automated Sorting
Others
Segmentation by Source:
Household Source
Commercial Source
Industrial Source
Segmentation by Application:
Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling
Building Materials
Industrial Raw Materials
Other
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Strategic Materials
Ardagh
Momentum Recycling
Heritage Glass
The Glass Recycling Company
Spring Pool
Vitro Minerals
Rumpke
Vetropack Holding
Reclam Group
Owens-Illinois (O-I)
Nampak
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Glass bottle recycling is the process of collecting, sorting, cleaning, and crushing used or discarded glass bottles to reprocess them into new glass products or for other industrial applications. Recycling helps reduce environmental waste, conserve raw materials and energy, and promotes resource circularity, making it an essential part of sustainable development.
The upstream of the glass bottle recycling industry mainly consists of glass bottle manufacturers, beverage and alcoholic beverage producers, and collection channels such as supermarket return points, community recycling stations, and deposit-return systems. The midstream involves recycling processing, including sorting, cleaning, crushing, and melting. The downstream includes remanufacturing and industrial applications, where recycled glass can be used to produce new bottles (bottle-to-bottle recycling), construction materials, fiberglass, or other industrial raw materials, achieving resource circularity and industry value addition.
The main drivers of glass bottle recycling include environmental regulations and policies, increased awareness of sustainability among businesses and consumers, the adoption of deposit-return and incentive-based recycling systems, and advancements in recycling technology and automated sorting, which improve recovery rates and reduce costs. Risk factors include contamination or mixing of recycled glass, fluctuations in raw material prices, incomplete collection channels, rising transportation and processing costs, and uncertain market demand, all of which can affect recycling efficiency and industry profitability.
LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Glass Bottle Recycling Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Glass Bottle Recycling sales in 2025, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Glass Bottle Recycling sales for 2026 through 2032. With Glass Bottle Recycling sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Glass Bottle Recycling industry.
This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Glass Bottle Recycling landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Glass Bottle Recycling portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Glass Bottle Recycling market.
This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Glass Bottle Recycling and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Glass Bottle Recycling.
This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Glass Bottle Recycling market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.
Segmentation by Type:
Clear Type
Green Type
Brown Type
Segmentation by Recycling Method:
Manual Collection
Automated Sorting
Others
Segmentation by Source:
Household Source
Commercial Source
Industrial Source
Segmentation by Application:
Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling
Building Materials
Industrial Raw Materials
Other
This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries
The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Strategic Materials
Ardagh
Momentum Recycling
Heritage Glass
The Glass Recycling Company
Spring Pool
Vitro Minerals
Rumpke
Vetropack Holding
Reclam Group
Owens-Illinois (O-I)
Nampak
Please note: The report will take approximately 2 business days to prepare and deliver.
Table of Contents
101 Pages
- *This is a tentative TOC and the final deliverable is subject to change.*
- 1 Scope of the Report
- 2 Executive Summary
- 3 Glass Bottle Recycling Market Size by Player
- 4 Glass Bottle Recycling by Region
- 5 Americas
- 6 APAC
- 7 Europe
- 8 Middle East & Africa
- 9 Market Drivers, Challenges and Trends
- 10 Global Glass Bottle Recycling Market Forecast
- 11 Key Players Analysis
- 12 Research Findings and Conclusion
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