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bottle bank

British

noun

a large container into which the public may throw glass bottles for recycling

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The first week of January may be the time for bringing down decorations, taking the empties to the bottle bank and returning unwanted gifts.

From BBC

Firefighters were called after a young woman got her head stuck in a bottle bank.

From The Guardian

Tenants with a guilty conscience would occasionally trek down to the bottle bank and paper bank up the road, but there were not many.

From BBC

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