Despite our many efforts to curtail the practice of our residents putting broken glass panes, broken bottles, busted mirrors and glass shards into plastic trash bags, we STILL have residents who do this. This is not just careless, it is negligent. We have sent out Notices which ask our residents to put broken glass of any sort into a box and tape it securely. This includes 12 or 24 packs of beer bottles, as the bottles always fall out of the open cardboard container and end up shattering in the trailer or on the ground, and at the compactor. Boxes must be taped closed or we will not pick them up.
We have already had one of our maintenance guys get cut on the leg from a shard of glass poking out of a trash bag and in the most recent 3 or 4 trash days, we had at least 6 plastic trash bags with broken glass in them. We are not talking a broken drinking glass; we are talking fairly large window glass or mirror pieces. We will be checking bags for broken glass each time we pick up trash and will be noting the addresses of any broken glass in trash bags or not properly contained in a securely closed box. Each time we find broken glass in a trash bag there will be fines issued to the owner(s).
This is a health and safety issue and must be taken seriously.