Is it normal to throw glass bottles down a building trash chute?
I am supposed to tie my garbage bags up so that garbage doesn't fall out when I throw the bags down the trash chute in my building. I live on the 15th floor, so anything I throw down the trash chute is moving pretty quickly by the time it lands in the dumpster or whatever is at the bottom below the trash chute.
I sometimes throw broken electronics down the trash chute, such as an old wall clock or old VCR last week that had stopped working. I thought it was funny when I heard the VCR clanging against the wall on its way down to the bottom.
My favorite thing to throw is beer bottles. I had around 10 glass beer bottles (Corona) that had been sitting in my refrigerator for about two years and were beyond their expiration dates. So I took the full glass beer bottles and fired them one at a time down the trash chute. The first couple landed at the bottom without breaking, as far as I could tell. However, the other ones landed on glass bottles already at the bottom and I heard them break.
I don't know whether this practice creates a mess at the bottom of the trash chute or whether broken glass shatters all over the place. I figure that all of the glass is confined to a dumpster, but it some glass does land on the ground someone else will clean it up.
Is this normal behavior?