Broken glass recycling

[grok_mctanys]

Does anyone know if it's OK to put broken glass in your glass recycling bin? If so, are you supposed to do anything special with it, like how you used to wrap broken glass in newspaper before putting it in your regular bin before glass recycling was a thing, so that the collection people don't get injured by it?

I've had a look through the flyers they put through your door explaining what goes where, and I've had a look on the collection company's website, and done a bit of a googleduckduckgo search, but I can't find any guidance either way.

Also, while "I put broken glass in my recycling and no-one's ever complained" anecdotes are kind of informative and useful, links to official policy declarations would be preferred.

Comments

[little_frank]

It's never occurred to me for it not to be ok. The bin's so deep I often break glass things putting them in. The 'waste disposal operatives?' don't handle the bin contents at all, it's emptied into the truck by machine, and I suspect it might be compacted in the truck like normal rubbish, which would break some things anyway. I'm going to carry on assuming it's not a problem unless someone tells me it is a problem anyway. I'm more concerned about their terrible guidance about what plastics they can and can't recycle - like they say bottles made out of just about any plastic are fine, but other objects made of the same plastic as bottles aren't - wtf!