General waste bin or glass recycle bin or neither?

I have some decade old, gruesome tall thin glasses infested with mold and food residue, cloaked in a grotesque and sticky film of decaying death that… are in no easy way to clean. What to do with them?

I think it might be dangerous to workers when put in the general waste.

  • norimee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Put them in the glass recycling. This might be different from your general recycling bin.

    To recycle glass they break it down into tiny shards, it gets industrially cleaned and then melted and formed into new glassware.

    Glass doesn’t has to be clean to be able to be recycled, just mostly separated into colours.

    • bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I’m not sure this is the correct thing to do. Around here they say that only container glass can go into the glass recycling because the composition of other glass can be different…