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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Recycling centers generally don't want smashed glass, either. They usually have to sort through things, and (a) can't if it's just shards and (b) if humans are doing the sorting, it's dangerous for them.
I think.
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I looked into it. Because I know that in the past the cafés and restaurants had different bins for coloured glass and clear glass, but I don't think they have that anymore. The same goes for the neighbourhood underground recycling bins used by households. We used to have a bin for coloured glass and one for clear glass. Now there's only one bin.
It seems that some city councils still collect glass separately, then the clear glass can be recycled into new clear glass and the coloured glass into new coloured glass. But other councils, apparently ours, don't do that anymore and all the glass is recycled into new coloured glass.
Most of the glass in the bins for households ends up in shards, those bins are deep so the glass you throw into it usually breaks.