How to dispose of broken patio window glass

iwant2asave

Hi,

One sheet of our double glazed patio window broke into tiny pieces.

We are not getting it replaced immediately and wondered where is the correct place or places to dispose of the fragments?  Thanks 

daveyjp

It would be in my household waste wheely bin.

CliveOfIndia

Sweep it up, put it into an old cardboard box and take it to your local council tip, in the "general household waste" skip.

If you're unable to do that for whatever reason, than I guess second-best would be to just put it into your wheely bin.  This sort of glass usually can't be recycled, so it's just a case of getting rid of it in a safe manner, where it won't cause any danger to either you or the bin-men who collect it.

As long as you have a wheely-bin then it's probably not such a danger to the bin-men.  If you want to be really conscientious, get a piece of paper, write on it "Danger, contains broken glass" and sellotape it to the lid.

I did a similar thing donkey's years ago when wheely-bins weren't a thing and we just used to put the bin bags out by the front.  I put the glass into an old box, taped it up and taped a piece of paper on it saying "Danger - broken glass !!!!".  Left it beside the bin bags and it was collected no problem.

TELLIT01

I would just use double bagged rubbish bags and put it in the bin.  In fact that's exactly what I did do when one of the roof panels in our conservatory was smashed.

molerat

What does your local council web site tell you to do with it ?

Most types of glass can be recycled but very little outside of jars and bottles is accepted by council recycling facilities.

iwant2asave

molerat said:

What does your local council web site tell you to do with it ?

Most types of glass can be recycled but very little outside of jars and bottles is accepted by council recycling facilities.

It doesn't say anything about broken glass.

Bookworm105

iwant2asave said:

molerat said:

What does your local council web site tell you to do with it ?

Most types of glass can be recycled but very little outside of jars and bottles is accepted by council recycling facilities.

It doesn't say anything about broken glass.

the quickest solution will be to take it to the local tip yourself and let them tell you where to put it: landfill or recycling

for my council they state that broken glass will be classed as landfill waste because of the dangers it poses for recycling and that recycling machinery is designed to process intact glass bottles, not sheet/plate glass. We can put "small amounts" (undefined but the picture is of a broken drinking glass) in the black bin, everything else must be taken to the tip yourself.

35har1old

Bookworm105 said:

iwant2asave said:

molerat said:

What does your local council web site tell you to do with it ?

Most types of glass can be recycled but very little outside of jars and bottles is accepted by council recycling facilities.

It doesn't say anything about broken glass.

the quickest solution will be to take it to the local tip yourself and let them tell you where to put it: landfill or recycling

for my council they state that broken glass will be classed as landfill waste because of the dangers it poses for recycling and that recycling machinery is designed to process intact glass bottles, not sheet/plate glass. We can put "small amounts" (undefined but the picture is of a broken drinking glass) in the black bin, everything else must be taken to the tip yourself.

When you deposit a glass bottle into a covered skip with openings roughly 1.6m from ground level with rubber flaps do you not hear the bottle break when it hits the metal bottom are you then suggesting that as there is now broken glass in the skip that it is all sent to landfill.
The fortnightly house collections are put into a Wheelie bin and then lifted like the general waist into the body of the vehicle dropping from roughly 2m into the metal body there's no way that all bottles would be intact after that process

FreeBear

Bookworm105 said: for my council they state that broken glass will be classed as landfill waste because of the dangers it poses for recycling and that recycling machinery is designed to process intact glass bottles, not sheet/plate glass. We can put "small amounts" (undefined but the picture is of a broken drinking glass) in the black bin, everything else must be taken to the tip yourself.

Larger amounts of broken glass from a window would be classed as DIY waste, so the council could charge you for it.