Glass recycling points

Recycling points carry one tag per material, such as recycling:glass_bottles=yes or recycling:paper=yes.

The query

[out:json][timeout:60];
area["name"="Genève"]["admin_level"="8"]->.a;
nwr["amenity"="recycling"]["recycling:glass_bottles"="yes"](area.a);
out center;

Run it

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How it works

1. ["recycling:glass_bottles"="yes"] keeps only points that accept glass bottles.
2. Recycling centres are also tagged recycling_type=centre; street containers recycling_type=container.

Variations

• Batteries, clothes or paper: change the key to recycling:batteries, recycling:clothes or recycling:paper.

Run it from your code

curl https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter \
  --data-urlencode 'data@query.overpassql'

import requests

query = open("query.overpassql").read()
r = requests.post("https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter",
                  data={"data": query}, timeout=120)
r.raise_for_status()
print(r.json()["elements"][:3])

const res = await fetch("https://api.overpass.ch/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter", {
  method: "POST",
  body: new URLSearchParams({ data: query }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(await res.text());
console.log(await res.json());

Save the query as query.overpassql. It works the same in Overpass Turbo, QGIS and JOSM.