How Do You Dispose Of Glass?

OneEyedDiva

OneEyedDiva

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This is a three part question:
I have a large print that has a glass covering intact. I'm thinking I'll just set it out in the dumpster area? Maybe someone will like it and take it.
I also have 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 (I think) picture on which the glass broke after it fell. Would it be okay to dispose of it in a large padded envelope?
What are the rules for such disposal in your area?
 

We have three recycling points a few yards away. Daughter and I rinse all the glass jars, broken glass and all and dispose of it in the huge receptacles. Broken glass is always bagged to protect the collectors from cuts. Recycling began back in 1995. So, it's been an ongoing routine for quite a while now.

Two changes occurred recently. When we moved here, the brown bin for compost wasn't necessary anymore so we left it at old house. We got an added food bin which has been a great help in reducing garbage smells indoors.

Large items for recycling... You need to contact your local city hall to know how the items can be disposed of, where and how.

Sorry, I only know our excellent recycling services here in the UK...but do contact them to find out what's available đź‘Ť
 

Supernatural said:
We have three recycling points a few yards away. Daughter and I rinse all the glass jars, broken glass and all and dispose of it in the huge receptacles. Broken glass is always bagged to protect the collectors from cuts. Recycling began back in 1995. So, it's been an ongoing routine for quite a while now.
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Wish we had glass recycling here, but we don't.

Only paper, metal, and some plastics. The rules on what is and isn't allowable plastic make it a bit impractical...
 
Preparing glass to be recycled actually wastes resources. Folks use more water to clean glass, the equipment used to process recycled glass uses electricity and the trucks that haul the recycled glass adds to CO2 emissions and uses gas.
I know, I know, everyone 'feels good' in recycling. But, its not what most people think. I've been on government committees looking at the affects of recycling vs. the return and it doesn't save anything, but create a whole new industry that ends up costing more. Plus, cities and towns that try to sell the recycled products sometimes have to pay (tax payer money) to get rid of the recycled products because the value isn't there to turn it into a usable product.
 
I have three bins provided by the local council.

One is for recyclables, including glass, paper, cardboard and some plastics.
It has a yellow lid and is collected fortnightly.

Another is for garden waste - grass cuttings, fallen leaves, twigs and plant prunings.
It has a green lid and is collected fortnightly as well, but not at the same time as the recyclables.

The third bin is smaller and is collected weekly. It has a red lid and is for everything else, within reason.

I have my own compost bin for vegetable peelings and other plant material. This helps to reduce the waste that finds its way into the red bin each week.
 
Here in Canada, every municipality has a different system. In some cases really different.

For the intact glass, sure, leave it out for whoever might want it.

The broken picture glass, I'd wrap it in waste paper or cardboard, and put it in the garbage.
 
I recycle most of my jars at Christmas time for food gifts. Some larger ones I use for food storage at my house.

What I can't use, especially the smaller ones, I give my cousin who uses them at her church food pantry. They make jelly & have been using canning jars. The people won't bring those back to be reused, so this saves them a little money on jars.

Other glass that I can't use goes in the recycle bin & if broken in a cardboard box. In our area, most houses has a recycle bin & everything goes in there to be separated later.
 
Warrigal said:
I have three bins provided by the local council.

One is for recyclables, including glass, paper, cardboard and some plastics.
It has a yellow lid and is collected fortnightly.

Another is for garden waste - grass cuttings, fallen leaves, twigs and plant prunings.
It has a green lid and is collected fortnightly as well, but not at the same time as the recyclables.

The third bin is smaller and is collected weekly. It has a red lid and is for everything else, within reason.

I have my own compost bin for vegetable peelings and other plant material. This helps to reduce the waste that finds its way into the red bin each week.
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pretty much the same here.. except our whole bins are coloured not just the lids..

Oddly the Brown bin is for Garden waste.. grass cuttings twigs and branches no thicker than an inch in diameter.. It was also used for food waste until this year until they changed the rules.. I don't know why.. but for the brown bin to be emptied we have to pay an annual fee of ÂŁ45 on top of the council tax we pay for the other waste removal.

The Blue bin is for Glass, Cardboard and recycled paper of all types ..that gets full quickly due to online deliveries..

,,and the last is the Black Bin for general waste..
 
Disposing of glass always concerns me, a glass cut can cause serious injury and I would hate for one of my garbage collectors to be injured. So I always wrap and secure it to insure it won't injure someone. Broken glass I'll put in a box or container and tape it shut, glass panes I'll wrap in cardboard and tape tight, also I will label it glass with a marker.

I've been cut badly enough by glass to treat it very carefully.
 
In Vancouver BC, Canada:

Black bin (various sizes): regular garbage (yearly city tax is high for this bin)
Green bin: compostables minimal tax

Private recycling company picks up these:
Blue Box: plastic containers
Grey Box: glass
Yellow Bag: paper
 
Recycling is not available in the rural area I am in. Even the waste disposal plant could not tell me what to do with used motor oil but I have since learned that some oil change businesses will take it.
 
Here in Cali broken glass just goes out with regular trash. It all ends up in a landfill. People who work in landfills wear protective gear including heavy boots in case they need to exit from their bulldozer equipment and move about. Even if the glass is intact, not broken and people put it in their recycle bin, this glass still ends up in the landfill. They are trying to enact new laws and regulations in Calif to encourage glass recycling.
 
Indoors and under the kitchen sink I keep a small broken glass bin made of plastic
and all enclosed with a lid. Eventually I move it outdoors to another bin which is
a large grey recycle...
 
Off topic...

Fort Bragg that is along our Mendocino County Pacific Coast is about 170 road miles north of San Francisco. It has a unique tourist attraction that was the result of earlier decades tossing garbage into the ocean off rocky bluff cliffs. What that did given years of wave action grinding stones together, is create wonderful smooth sea glass. But then dumping was stopped and since then much of the better colored glass, especially blue glass has been picked over. Although it is officially illegal to pick glass, that is not enforced. What the small thinking local officials afraid of some environmentalists haven't allowed is replenishments that would be easy given enormous amounts of broken glass otherwise ending up in land fills. Of course small minded environmental types with knee jerk reactions reject any notion of doing so as though it would be setting some precedent. If dumping colored glass was allowed at specific limited off limits rocky shores, it would however require a decade or more once ended so the glass could smooth itself out.

https://www.mendocino.com/glass-beach.html

Many thumbnail web images. A good place for a close-up photographer like this person:

https://images.search.yahoo.com/sea...p=fort+bragg+glass+beach&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t
 
Sippican said:
Preparing glass to be recycled actually wastes resources. Folks use more water to clean glass, the equipment used to process recycled glass uses electricity and the trucks that haul the recycled glass adds to CO2 emissions and uses gas.
I know, I know, everyone 'feels good' in recycling. But, its not what most people think. I've been on government committees looking at the affects of recycling vs. the return and it doesn't save anything, but create a whole new industry that ends up costing more. Plus, cities and towns that try to sell the recycled products sometimes have to pay (tax payer money) to get rid of the recycled products because the value isn't there to turn it into a usable product.
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When I have a dirty jar, I usually decide that it’s better to garbage it than waste water cleaning it.

For compost recycling, some people are paying 50 cents to a dollar to buy fitted bags for the under sink or larger compost bins. When the weather is warmer, most people hose down the interior of the bins after pick up day. More water wasted and some residue left on the ground. It was so much easier to take it to a central bin or have your own composting, if that’s your thing.

LadyEmeraude said:
Indoors and under the kitchen sink I keep a small broken glass bin made of plastic
and all enclosed with a lid. Eventually I move it outdoors to another bin which is
a large grey recycle...
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Why do you have so much broken glass?
 
Jules said:
When I have a dirty jar, I usually decide that it’s better to garbage it than waste water cleaning it.

For compost recycling, some people are paying 50 cents to a dollar to buy fitted bags for the under sink or larger compost bins. When the weather is warmer, most people hose down the interior of the bins after pick up day. More water wasted and some residue left on the ground. It was so much easier to take it to a central bin or have your own composting, if that’s your thing.


Why do you have so much broken glass?
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I have minimal say like broken kitchen drinking glasses, drop it or accidently knock it off the counter, things like this.
My under the sink bin is quite small, never full, but I empty it twice yearly anyway ;)
 

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