How to dispose of glass table top?

[sovietspybob]

Wondering what others thoughts are on this..

I've got a 6 seater rattan style table and chairs in the garden but it's 8 years old and rusted through and needs to be scrapped which is fine but that'll leave me with a huge bit of glass and i've no idea how to dispose of it?

It's way to big to fit in the car to take anywhere.

I was thinking as I'm guessing it must be some form of safety glass could i just put it on a big old bed sheet and smash it as it should break into loads of tiny bits then just put it in my bin?

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Fire

 

[bainbridge]

Yes, but do be very careful. I had a large aquarium to dispose of, and the force I had to hit it with a hammer to get the thing to break was astounding.

Afterwards I boxed up the shards and took it to the recycling centre.

Again, be very careful. Wear goggles, leather riggers gloves (even better gauntlets) and take your time.

 

[sither]

give it away facebook marketplace

 

[SpellowHouse]

It's almost certainly safety glass, so wrap it in an old sheet and a whack with something pointy.

 

[Cornubia]

It's almost certainly safety glass, so wrap it in an old sheet and a whack with something pointy.

Yup, do this

Or try and give it away on Marketplace.

 

[gc123]

It's almost certainly safety glass, so wrap it in an old sheet and a whack with something pointy.

i used to dispose of toughened windscreens and always wrapped in a sheet and then tap the edge of the glass, one of my old instructors used to demonstrate standing on a toughened windscreen on the bow points into soft surface and in them days he was 20 odd stone and skipped on it without breaking.
one light tap on the edge .....game over

got quite a shock a few years back when i removed a large slightly rotten velux style window, managed to put the sealed unit into a couple of thick sheets expecting toughened .....when the double glazed unit broke it was ordinary plate glass massive shards so be careful.

 

[sovietspybob]

Thanks all, i'll try and see if there's any takers on facebook first but failing that looks like wrapping it up well in a sheet and giving it a firm tap is the way forward.

I'll make sure i'm fully PPE'd up before i do that though!

 

[sither]

Facebook will be gone

 

[Semple]

I'd probably whack a load of tape over it to hold as much together as possible.

 

[Firestar_3x]

i used to dispose of toughened windscreens and always wrapped in a sheet and then tap the edge of the glass, one of my old instructors used to demonstrate standing on a toughened windscreen on the bow points into soft surface and in them days he was 20 odd stone and skipped on it without breaking.
one light tap on the edge .....game over

got quite a shock a few years back when i removed a large slightly rotten velux style window, managed to put the sealed unit into a couple of thick sheets expecting toughened .....when the double glazed unit broke it was ordinary plate glass massive shards so be careful.

You'd be in for a shock if you did that with a windscreen produced in the last 40 / 50 years.

 

[gc123]

You'd be in for a shock if you did that with a windscreen produced in the last 40 / 50 years.

my how time flys personally was still removing toughened screens and fitting laminated middle to late 90s.

 

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[radderfire]

There's also the Freecycle website where you can give stuff away for free.