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I've no idea why but about a year ago I sold my LION "Glass Safe" ( chuck your waste glass strips into it and smash it up with the plunger, very satisfying )
I get those small green crates delivered from Wessex now and put my glass strips in there, the only problem is that I end up placing larger strips of glass in the corner "waiting to be cut down to size"... that just ends up with a very large pile of glass strips, not good.
I was just going to order another LION Glass Safe but they are not cheap Does anyone have a better solution, given that I still want to tip the broken bits into a Wessex green crate
Thanks,
Adam/Bagpuss
My real name is Adam Laver aka "Adam The Picture Framer", just in case you were unsure ; )
I find with my Lion safe that I end up building up a stack of glass next to it which is to big too fit in, so I end up carrying it across the workshop out into the carpark where my bin is. All to often it gets left for weeks and when I do put it in the bin the waste disposal company complain or refuse to collect it.
I tried using a wheely bin but then that gets to heavy to turf into the skip on my own.
I've never been a fan of smashing up glass like that. Cut pieces are relatively safe. Broken pieces are lethal. I save washing powder or other good solid boxes and pack it all in them. Doesn't take long to slice then up in small pieces.
When they are full just handywrap them and they are easy and safe to handle.
I cut my waste into stripsshort enough to fit in a medium size plastic bin, when that's full it's just about pick upable, then I take to my local Double Glazing firm and dump it in their skip, they don't mind and it gets recycled.
We have a wheelie bin for glass recycling right next to our glass cutter. Bits get lobbed straight in it and it gets emptied by the waste company once a fortnight.
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My decent offcuts go to a wood worker who periodically does smaller frames cut into natural wood. Any scraps go in his bin
In the meantime they sit next to my bench neatly lined up with smaller scraps in a bucket.
I use an old style metal bin (I think they are still available in B&Q garden centre), as the strip goes in I break it on the edge into smaller bits. When the bin is half full it gets tipped into the wheely bin.
I have a square mdf bin (19,0 thick) which is wide enough and deep enough to hold 6 builders buckets stacked inside each other. The lid has a letter box opening which is the same size as a mallet head. I cut pieces small enough to go through the letterbox. When one bin is nearly full I remove it for disposal and the next one sits there waiting. The builders buckets were 99p each and the box is about a tenners worth of mdf.
I can put a photo up tomorrow if anyone wants to see.
I used to have those from Wessex and they are very substantial. They are fine to bung pieces in and smash them up with the end of a piece of 3" x 2". I now use someone else who have bigger bins for the same price - but I don't have to smash the off cuts up though
I probably produce a lot less waste than many others, because my shop is not large and relying upon attracting a large volume of orders with competitive prices would just overwhelm both me and my small amount of available space. So instead, I rely upon a different business model of a lower volume of orders and a more specialist emphasis what I have to offer.
This means that I am not very typical and as a result this limits my options. My glass waste (cut to into managable sizes), mountboard waste and backing board waste all go in the same two household plastic bins, which are regularly emptied into my 240 litre commercial wheelie bin, which is emptied fortnightly to save unneccessarly expence. I would prefer to see as much as possible of my waste sent for recycling, but I simply don't have that option.
My wood mouldings waste is cut into managable sizes and given away to a friend who uses them in his wood burner to help heat his house. At least, this is making a small contribution to reducing the use of fossil fuels, but I think that not being able to recycle more of my waste is unfortunate. Far too much which could be recycled goes into land fill sites and I wonder what future generations will think of what we left for them.
Mark Lacey
“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer
my glass crusher was made from a used 5 gal (20l) paint bucket. I cut a hole in the center of the lid and passed a rope through with a head from a broken sledge hammer (a 12 pound block of steel with a hole in the center at the end.
Lifting the rope and letting it drop in the bucket does the work. When the bucket was 1/2 full...... I placed the contents in my trash dumpster in a box.
Is there a requirement for some of us to pack the bits of glass into a box? I can understand why those working from home might do this, but my waste glass goes straight in the dumpster as it is.
I've never given it a second thought until now. The waste removal company seen perfectly happy about this, so I've always assumed that this is how everyone else does it!
Mark Lacey
“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer
feeling very worthy now : i take all my glass bits to the recycling centre once the bin gets to the 'can-hardly-lift-it' point. !
all the left over board goes into the weekly recycling collection - but i do also encourage the local schools and craft groups to collect whatever board off cuts they want, which they seem to like doing. !!!
Does anyone have a better solution, given that I still want to tip the broken bits into a Wessex green crate 
!