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That's a brilliant idea.... NOT. The dustmen will then be dealing with broken glass everywhere. Doesn't matter whether they are at the top of the bin or the bottom, everything gets mixed up when the bin is turned upside down.
Good luck with that after Boxing Day! Last year it was rammed to overflowing for nearly a fortnight before they came to empty the bins there.
The bin men can quite rightly refuse to empty your bin if there is broken, as Hopes Dad says, they will be covered in broken glass when the bin tips up.
Surely you're not stupid enough to think that bottles etc don't get broken every day in the recycling bins. Your bin men must be very careful compared to ours. I think you'll find there is no requirement to only put intact bottles etc into bins. Why would they get covered in glass? The bin is tipped into the truck not over themselves, if they're doing their job correctly (as ours do) they shouldn't come into contact with anything in the bins.
I was seeing a bloke from Birmingham who works for a recycling firm, part of his job is to go to pubs etc where there are glass bins. The amount of shards of glass I removed from his hands is amazing, and that's with him wearing gloves. A lot of that is down to there being broken glass in the bins to start with.
Glass recycling bins are not handled by dustmen. They are sealed containers which are taken directly to recycling facilities. They are not emptied by hand, because of the risk of glass. I realise that your mouth is far bigger than your brain, but please do some research before making wild accusations.
Hear hear!
The official notes are vague on the subject - http://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/recycling-and-waste-know-your-bins - it does, though, seem a little naive to expect no bottles to get broken in the current system, especially if dropped the full height of the bin onto another bottle. And the whole lot is then just tipped into the lorry as one and possibly even compacted. It seemed a much better system to me when we had the original green box and bottles were not mixed in with other stuff - and the colours could be kept separated then, too.
It's a private contractor, employed by Co-Op that does it. It was cleared Wednesday morning, but when I drove past earlier it was rapidly building up again.
