Wrapping broken glass in what nowadays?

I pick up a Metro any time I've got the opportunity, partly for the cryptic crossword but the rest goes in a pile for this purpose (and also drying inside of wet shoes etc).

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Thestolenone@reddit

No one handles household waste any more so you just put it in as it is.

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Consistent_Dust_2332@reddit

Raid the recycling - takeaway menus here often

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bishibashi@reddit

I’ve always got a few newspapers, i just pick up half a dozen metros or similar at the end of the day when I remember.

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MoanyTonyBalony@reddit

We've usually got an empty cereal box in the recycling so I tape that up and put it in there.

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pouchey2@reddit

I have a stash of the brown paper that comes in Amazon boxes for this purpose.

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Significant_Hurry542@reddit

Just goes straight into the "general waste" bin

That's the green bin for us

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JBEqualizer@reddit

I occasionally buy a newspaper, which I then keep in a drawer for exactly this kind of thing.

It's also handy to put shoes on if they need cleaning/polishing.

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atomic_mermaid@reddit

Do you not get junk mail and stuff? I just grab some paper or card out of the recycling bin in the kitchen and use that.

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godtierjerker@reddit

I would put it straight in the recycling bin.

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MrAxx@reddit

Not very helpful if you break a drinking glass as those can’t be recycled in home recycling

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godtierjerker@reddit

Yes they can

https://www.bury.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/bins-information/blue-bin

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Sea_Confidence_4902@reddit

Every council is different in terms of what they recycle and what they don't.

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godtierjerker@reddit

Yes I know. But I was just told that I couldn't do something that I actually can do, after being downvoted, so I provided more info about it.

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oktimeforplanz@reddit

But then someone has found a source for your area saying that you can't, because virtually nowhere says you can.

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MrAxx@reddit

Just because it doesn’t say, doesn’t mean you can

This website explicitly says you can’t and as far as I’m aware, there’s nowhere in the uk where you can recycle drinking glasses at home

https://recycleforgreatermanchester.com/recycling-in-your-area/bury/#:~:text=Broken%20drinking%20glasses%20should%20be,into%20your%20general%20waste%20bin.

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I just chuck it straight in the wheelie bin. TBH I'm not even sure why it can't go in the glass recycling. Nobody handles the stuff, and as soon as they chuck it in the truck it becomes broken glass anyway.

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TheCarrot007@reddit

Because the collectors might want to check you are recycling correctly.

If it is obviously broken before putting it in and they get hurt you will be responsible.

Of course most glass wioll smash dropping into the truck but that's a differnet matter and apoint after which is is expected.

Of course if you mean a glass drop of thing, then fair enought. You own bins, goes in the general waste.

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AutumnSunshiiine@reddit

Isn’t there something about glass cookware being able to withstand higher temperatures than glass milk/beer bottles and jam jars etc?

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oktimeforplanz@reddit

My council explicitly says that cookware and drinkware can't go in my recycling, and it's going to be the same idea.

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Kazinessex@reddit

It can go in the glass recycling, at least, it can where I live. My neighbour was dismantling an old greenhouse and asked the bin men if it was OK to put the broken panes of glass in the recycling bin. They said yes, and indeed, it was collected with no fuss.

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oktimeforplanz@reddit

Depends on the glass - my council explicitly says that the glass you typically find drinking glasses, cookware, etc made out of can't go in the recycling, but glass jars and such can.

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NortonBurns@reddit

We actually occasionally go out of our way to remember to bring home a couple of old copies of the Metro - free every morning at the train station.
They still come in handy every so often.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Straight in the bin, an alternative would probably be some old junk mail I guess.

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LanguidVirago@reddit

My council gave out our composting bins on Friday, bonus lesson on how-to recycle and use them properly, then gave us a stack of compagnon leaflets , which seemed a counterintuitive way of reducing waste costs, so that is what I will using for a while.

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CanidPsychopomp@reddit

Cereal box

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R2-Scotia@reddit

Amaxon packaging

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Think-Committee-4394@reddit

We have heavy plastic dog food bags (ziploc)

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Beanruz@reddit

I just stick it in the bin. You think the lorry thay crushes it cares about a newspaper?

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Kyber92@reddit

Bag for life, always makes me a bit sad when I have to waste a good Tesco bag on broken glass.

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seklas1@reddit

Since bin lorries are automated these days and workers don’t have to empty them manually, just place them on the lift arms, I thought all glass basically gets smashed up into pieces when emptying into the lorry from impact, so I have never wrapped glass into anything. When it gets into recycling centre, they’d have to manually unwrap that glass and separate from paper anyways, which they probably don’t do and just send it into landfills instead.

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