Cleaning up broken glass is no one’s idea of a good time…but these helpful hints can at least make it safer.
Place all pieces of broken glass in a brown paper bag. This is a reminder that there is broken glass in your trash can and ensures there will be no shards poking through the plastic trash bag and accidentally cutting someone (speaking from my own personal experience—ouch…19 stitches!). Do not place the brown bag in your kitchen trash, take it to your outside trash cans.
Then, vacuum to get the little pieces, being sure to go far outside the radius of where you think the glass landed…glass can bounce and travel farther than you think. Finally, change the vacuum bag/empty the bagless receptacle as soon as your are finished so a) you don’t forget and b) as the vacuum is moved around, small pieces can fall out the openings where the brushes are and land on the floor. Not a good thing (again, personal experience…one trip to the ER to have a piece of glass the size of a nickel removed from our daughter’s foot).
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