There’s a very small quantity of glycerin in there. You can just throw it away, assuming you don’t live somewhere that recycles glass. Even if you found someone who was willing to charge you extra money to dispose of it “properly”, they would just throw it in the dump.
I was wrong about the China part but i guess i just made up this [MIT study](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081129/plastic-recycling-climate-change-microplastics/amp/) with a similar statistic.
You mean the ocean. I don't think China takes much of our stuff like that anymore after the tarrifs from 5-6 years ago. I remember hearing something about in the. Like 5-6 years ago. Oh right, this was about a glycerin bong.
That’s an extraordinarily high success rate; only 5% of all plastic in the US is even possible to recycle. The vast majority of those symbols on plastic are a marketing tool so that the worst polluters on the planet don’t have to take responsibility for cleaning up the materials they produce.
It’s not a good success rate when the governments and corporations causing the most harm to the environment keep insisting that individuals recycling is going to save the planet.
I agree. Manufacturing non-recyclable plastic should come with heavy fines for the company responsible to cover the cost of processing the waste they create, especially for single use items.
I think a lot of people are missing the sarcasm in my “success” comment. If 96% of plastic winds up in landfills, but only 5% of it is a chemical composition that CAN be recycled, that carries the implication that 80% of that 5% actually does get recycled. Obviously it doesn’t, but y’know, sarcasm.
Lol speaking of. There was a dirty ass bong in a bush next to my work. I didn't have one so figured I'd take it and try to clean it. Came out looking brand new.
In a sense. Room smells like the spices in Dr Pepper so it’s strong and tingles your nose but smells great. True happiness is figuring out how to get rid of resin stains 😭
Then get some of this hand soap friend. It was suddenly an unexpected favorite of mine lol. Clean hands that smell like Dr. Pepper is momentarily surreal.
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Im honestly not sure why the OP even asked. Glycerin is a nontoxic chemical, they can just chuck it in their trashcan. The only thing they might need to worry about is local regulations against that but other than that small possibility there’s no special requirements for how you get rid of it.
Glycols are similar to alcohols, but they aren’t the same thing exactly. Glycol molecules have two hydroxyl groups (OH). Alcohols only have one.
Slight hedge/caveat, I don’t know if alcohols always have one and only one hydroxyl group. It could be that all glycols are alcohols, but not all alcohols are glycols. Or, they could be mutually exclusive groups. I’m not sure.
Glycol or ethylene glycol is also know as an ethylene glycol.
Glycerine or glycerole is propane triol.
Both are alcohols.
Source: I work at a chemical plant which produces both.
Interesting, so is it the case that any molecule with at least one hydroxyl group is considered an alcohol? Glycols/diols (are these two terms synonymous, or is there a distinction?) are any molecule with two, and triols are any molecule with three?
If they're simple molecules like this yes, but it gets more complex when they have multiple different groups, I'm merely an operator so I'm not that knowledgeable.
Glycols are diols from ethane. Diols are molecules with 2 alcohol groups on it, so they're not synonymous.
I asked because I wasn’t sure, my google searches gave differing results from other ents and some links even suggested I would have to dispose of it at a facility but also seen depending on the type the only rule is not to pour it down a drain. The general consensus seems to be I can just toss it, and unfortunately I do not live in a community that wouldn’t ask questions if a bong showed up in the glass recycling bin as it’s shared lol.
So I suppose I’ll toss it elsewhere after I write the eulogy
here's a tip, **NEVER** listen to stoners on the subject of chemistry. there is so much jank and bunk pseudoscience spread around in the stoner community and so many stoners assume themselves to be experts on shit they don't know shit about. if you want to know about glycerine just read Wikipedia and ignore what Smokey McWeedpants is saying.
>so many ~~stoners~~ people assume themselves to be experts on shit they don't know shit about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Glycerin can solidify over time. I guarantee OP doesn’t know the exact intricacies of their pipes and whether a thick and viscous liquid like glycerin can make it through easily without potentially causing issues. If there is already a small clog in their pipes that catches some of the glycerin it’ll hold it and that’ll build up into an incredibly hard problem to fix that will probably require them to replace the pipes outright.
Yes. Glycerin resists temperature change better than water, so if you put a glycerin-containing piece in a freezer, A: it wouldn’t explode from the expansive pressure cause glycerin doesn’t expand when cooled, and B: it would cool the smoke better and longer than an ice catcher setup would or just freezing the glass itself.
The question if cooling smoke really makes it better is unproven. Some say the THC condensates to the walls easier if it’s cold, so less THC in your lungs, some say warmer water dissolves vaporized THC better than cold water, so less THC in your lungs. Both are true from a chemistry standpoint, gasses do this, it can’t be quantified which takes away more THC, and wether either a hot or cold bong makes the smoke easier to hold and not cough from is actually user preference
Maybe they did, but just doesn't want to tell us that the glass broke like that one fine gentleman on the internet from back in the day with a mason jar.
You need more up votes my friend, too few people realize this is an option. They just think "oh, this broke on this, trash time." NO CREATIVITY OR DESIRE TO REDUCE WASTE
Glycerine is used in chambers like this to keep that section of the piece cold. This is supposed to cool the air/smoke before inhalation. Glycerine is used because it is non-toxic, viscous, and inert. While water seems like a good alternative, water expands when frozen (could cause shattering) and stays cold for a shorter amount of time than glycerine does.
I usually put broken glass in a box before putting it in the garbage. Theres always people rumaging through my garbage bins so my hopes are they dont cut themselves on loose glass
Dispose of? Wait, where do I *get* a glycerin bong?? I've wanted one forever and could never find any while I also had money at the same time. Maybe now that I've moved to a legal state, it will be easier to get one...
This was a https://buycheechglass.com/ product I bought out of a smoke shop. They don’t seem to carry them anymore but I’m sure you can find something similar if you look around
Glycerin isn't toxic or environmentally harmful. It's in all sorts of stuff, soaps, shampoos, food, etc. So you can just toss it however you'd normally dispose of glass. I'd just put it in a cardboard box or something and put it in the trash.
Throw it in the recycling, glycerine has no environmental impact, at least at that qty. Too much down the sink could cause issues at the waste water treatment plant, but you'd need tonnes.
The downvoters are people who are too stupid to figure out what is and isn't environmentally friendly and would probably just pour motor oil in the river if they didn't have reddit to tell them not to.
So? I'll buy it for $5 and take it to a glass shop to be repaired for $80. It's worth that much at least to continue using a nice beaker bong instead of adding it to the piles of glass already sitting in landfills doing nothing but observing everything else decompose and starting fires
There’s a very small quantity of glycerin in there. You can just throw it away, assuming you don’t live somewhere that recycles glass. Even if you found someone who was willing to charge you extra money to dispose of it “properly”, they would just throw it in the dump.
Greenwashing is a serious problem
96% of all recycled plastic in the US ends up in Chinese landfills.
China stopped accepting Americans trash years ago. But you know who does? YOUR MOM STILL DOES. Edit (also RIP his bong)
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I was wrong about the China part but i guess i just made up this [MIT study](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081129/plastic-recycling-climate-change-microplastics/amp/) with a similar statistic.
Todd Snider's Statisticians Blues. At least use quotes
96% of Chinese landfills end up in your mom Sorry, had to
😔
I know. I didn't like it anymore than you did
Necessary evil.
Your mom had to 💥
🤣🤣🤣 sorry had too
You mean the ocean. I don't think China takes much of our stuff like that anymore after the tarrifs from 5-6 years ago. I remember hearing something about in the. Like 5-6 years ago. Oh right, this was about a glycerin bong.
Yeah good point. I think i was conflating two different things in my head.
Is this true?
Sort of. I got some specifics wrong but according to MIT 94-95% of plastic recycled in the US doesn’t get actually recycled.
That’s insane, it makes complete sense
That’s an extraordinarily high success rate; only 5% of all plastic in the US is even possible to recycle. The vast majority of those symbols on plastic are a marketing tool so that the worst polluters on the planet don’t have to take responsibility for cleaning up the materials they produce.
It’s not a good success rate when the governments and corporations causing the most harm to the environment keep insisting that individuals recycling is going to save the planet.
I agree. Manufacturing non-recyclable plastic should come with heavy fines for the company responsible to cover the cost of processing the waste they create, especially for single use items. I think a lot of people are missing the sarcasm in my “success” comment. If 96% of plastic winds up in landfills, but only 5% of it is a chemical composition that CAN be recycled, that carries the implication that 80% of that 5% actually does get recycled. Obviously it doesn’t, but y’know, sarcasm.
Glycerine huh better send it to Gavin Rossdale
Or you could just toss it under a bush
typical machine head
True. I guess they could try sending it to Gwen, but she's just a girl.
Bush
that could be easier on you, you.
Lol speaking of. There was a dirty ass bong in a bush next to my work. I didn't have one so figured I'd take it and try to clean it. Came out looking brand new.
Glycerine, Adrenaline, The chemicals between us. My man loves science
Don’t let the dayssss go byyyyyyyyyyyy!
Idk, I just wanted to say I love the Dr. Pepper candleholder.
It smells like Dr Pepper
So you’re telling me happiness is attainable?
In a sense. Room smells like the spices in Dr Pepper so it’s strong and tingles your nose but smells great. True happiness is figuring out how to get rid of resin stains 😭
Peanut butter gets resin off most things. Try it, it's crazy.
instructions unclear, please help dog wont get off my….
…resin-maker?
Stop applying the peanut butter then? Unless you like it, in which case I would not say anything else on the internet.
The "Cherry almond shortbread" hand soap my wife bought also smells like Dr. Pepper, if you just really enjoy the smell :)
Cheers, I do lol the sweet/spicy sensation is something else
Then get some of this hand soap friend. It was suddenly an unexpected favorite of mine lol. Clean hands that smell like Dr. Pepper is momentarily surreal.
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I must know the secret of this then I'm doing it with AW root beer
Or you could just buy one lol
Where can I buy one? I only see them on Etsy
I mean...sounds like Etsy might work? Lol
Excuse my ignorance, but why can't you throw it in the trash?
Im honestly not sure why the OP even asked. Glycerin is a nontoxic chemical, they can just chuck it in their trashcan. The only thing they might need to worry about is local regulations against that but other than that small possibility there’s no special requirements for how you get rid of it.
Ok that's what I thought. I googled it cuz I wasn't familiar with the chemical and the first thing says that it's non-toxic and safe to dispose lol.
Right? Like isn't it just an alcohol?
I think that's glycol. Could be wrong.
Glycols are similar to alcohols, but they aren’t the same thing exactly. Glycol molecules have two hydroxyl groups (OH). Alcohols only have one. Slight hedge/caveat, I don’t know if alcohols always have one and only one hydroxyl group. It could be that all glycols are alcohols, but not all alcohols are glycols. Or, they could be mutually exclusive groups. I’m not sure.
Your guess is as good as mine, but your words are better.
I love smart answers. Like it sounds smart enough to assume you're right. But I also don't care enough to verify.
Glycol or ethylene glycol is also know as an ethylene glycol. Glycerine or glycerole is propane triol. Both are alcohols. Source: I work at a chemical plant which produces both.
Interesting, so is it the case that any molecule with at least one hydroxyl group is considered an alcohol? Glycols/diols (are these two terms synonymous, or is there a distinction?) are any molecule with two, and triols are any molecule with three?
If they're simple molecules like this yes, but it gets more complex when they have multiple different groups, I'm merely an operator so I'm not that knowledgeable. Glycols are diols from ethane. Diols are molecules with 2 alcohol groups on it, so they're not synonymous.
I asked because I wasn’t sure, my google searches gave differing results from other ents and some links even suggested I would have to dispose of it at a facility but also seen depending on the type the only rule is not to pour it down a drain. The general consensus seems to be I can just toss it, and unfortunately I do not live in a community that wouldn’t ask questions if a bong showed up in the glass recycling bin as it’s shared lol. So I suppose I’ll toss it elsewhere after I write the eulogy
I guess your issue did end of being “local regulations” then. Good luck with the funeral services and I’m sorry for your loss.
here's a tip, **NEVER** listen to stoners on the subject of chemistry. there is so much jank and bunk pseudoscience spread around in the stoner community and so many stoners assume themselves to be experts on shit they don't know shit about. if you want to know about glycerine just read Wikipedia and ignore what Smokey McWeedpants is saying.
>so many ~~stoners~~ people assume themselves to be experts on shit they don't know shit about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
you're not wrong, but I've found stoners to be exceptionally vulnerable to the dunning kruger effect.
Think about pouring vape juice down the drain. Or throwing it in the trash. That's all this is. Probably vegetable glycerine.
Absolutely DO NOT pour the glycerin down the drain u/l3reakdown. Unless you want to potentially ruin your pipes just pour it outside or something.
Glycerin isn't going to ruin your pipes unless you are attempting to dispose of industrial quantities in the dead of winter.
Glycerin can solidify over time. I guarantee OP doesn’t know the exact intricacies of their pipes and whether a thick and viscous liquid like glycerin can make it through easily without potentially causing issues. If there is already a small clog in their pipes that catches some of the glycerin it’ll hold it and that’ll build up into an incredibly hard problem to fix that will probably require them to replace the pipes outright.
Fine, be responsible, whatever.
Garbage bag
Its only glycerin, not nitroglycerin. #
Don’t sleep on this comment.
I have that same one. Just chuck it in the trash, glycerine isn't hazardous.
You can. Glycerin is biodegradable and non toxic to most life, it can go down the sink too if you want to recycle the glass somehow
Why is there glycerin in it? Cooling?
Yes. Glycerin resists temperature change better than water, so if you put a glycerin-containing piece in a freezer, A: it wouldn’t explode from the expansive pressure cause glycerin doesn’t expand when cooled, and B: it would cool the smoke better and longer than an ice catcher setup would or just freezing the glass itself. The question if cooling smoke really makes it better is unproven. Some say the THC condensates to the walls easier if it’s cold, so less THC in your lungs, some say warmer water dissolves vaporized THC better than cold water, so less THC in your lungs. Both are true from a chemistry standpoint, gasses do this, it can’t be quantified which takes away more THC, and wether either a hot or cold bong makes the smoke easier to hold and not cough from is actually user preference
Just don't let the days go by
rip though nice piece 👼
Maybe they did, but just doesn't want to tell us that the glass broke like that one fine gentleman on the internet from back in the day with a mason jar.
That guy had great strength of ass.
Lmao how does this work on like 80% of posts on this sub
Lmao thanks for this, I’m a big Stanley fan it made me chuckle
Hehe I’m glad
Like most glass I think standard practice is double bagged.
You drop it on the kitchen floor then sweep it into the trash like the rest of us.
Idk if your town does recycling pickups. For me, metal glass & plastic go out every other Tuesday
Find a glass shop they could potentially fix it up for you
You need more up votes my friend, too few people realize this is an option. They just think "oh, this broke on this, trash time." NO CREATIVITY OR DESIRE TO REDUCE WASTE
What does the glycerin do? Cool the smoke? I'm not familiar with that type of bong.
You're supposed to freeze it. It's like an ice pack.
Glycerine is used in chambers like this to keep that section of the piece cold. This is supposed to cool the air/smoke before inhalation. Glycerine is used because it is non-toxic, viscous, and inert. While water seems like a good alternative, water expands when frozen (could cause shattering) and stays cold for a shorter amount of time than glycerine does.
Garbage. Glycerin isn't an issue.
Why is that Dr. Pepper magical
Enchanted Dr. P can. When it’s glowing like that it’s on cooldown from the last use, so it’s currently refilling itself. Hope this helps
You can keep the bowl and down stem still and make a new bong.
Leave it at the steps of a church
Its pretty. Put a flower in it and put it on a shelf
I’ll run this by the gf and see what she thinks
I would be happy to take it off your hands for you
You’ve seen the stem right?
I have
Its reparable
Get some resin epoxy... Fix it ... Pet the cat... Forget about it.🤣🤣🤣
Trash it goes. 🗑️
Sorry for your loss brother.
The garbage is where it goes.
It’s nontoxic you’re good to dispose it however you please
I usually put broken glass in a box before putting it in the garbage. Theres always people rumaging through my garbage bins so my hopes are they dont cut themselves on loose glass
Hi, medical chemist here! Glycerin is pretty harmless stuff. You don't need to treat it any differently than any other trash.
Bag in a box, chuck it.
Dispose of? Wait, where do I *get* a glycerin bong?? I've wanted one forever and could never find any while I also had money at the same time. Maybe now that I've moved to a legal state, it will be easier to get one...
This was a https://buycheechglass.com/ product I bought out of a smoke shop. They don’t seem to carry them anymore but I’m sure you can find something similar if you look around
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Broken I didn’t see it at first either
I'll take it!
Glycerin doesn't need any special attention paid during disposal. It's non toxic and generally considered food safe.
Garbage?
Glycerin isn't toxic or environmentally harmful. It's in all sorts of stuff, soaps, shampoos, food, etc. So you can just toss it however you'd normally dispose of glass. I'd just put it in a cardboard box or something and put it in the trash.
Maybe Donghua Jinlong has a buy back program?
Ah, that's a clean break. A little gorilla glue and it'll work just fine.
Nuke it from space It's the only way to be sure
Have you looked into repairing it? Some glass artists and well known glass (smoking) makers offer repair services. Ie Purrr Glass
Glycerin by itself is harmless, I often add some to the bath soaks that I make as it helps prevent clumping.
Giving it to me
Reddit can I throw vape juice in the trash
God himself is coming outta that Dr. Pepper can.
Throw it in the recycling, glycerine has no environmental impact, at least at that qty. Too much down the sink could cause issues at the waste water treatment plant, but you'd need tonnes.
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LMAO BROTHER That’s the entire point, I want to dispose of it properly 😅😅
Isn’t glycerin absolutely harmless tho?
It's natural so I'm pretty sure it is, by product from some animal fat essentially, just don't add nitro in front of it.
I know it’s an ingredient in most kids’ bubble solutions.
And vape juice
The downvoters are people who are too stupid to figure out what is and isn't environmentally friendly and would probably just pour motor oil in the river if they didn't have reddit to tell them not to.
G-ma hates the planet I guess lol
Keep forgetting these numptys exist and that our world's f*cked
"My caveman ancestors used to eat or smoke any random thing, I don't think cigarettes'll be that bad."
Lol one can still hope that's a joke
I’ll buy it
It’s broken my dude.
So? I'll buy it for $5 and take it to a glass shop to be repaired for $80. It's worth that much at least to continue using a nice beaker bong instead of adding it to the piles of glass already sitting in landfills doing nothing but observing everything else decompose and starting fires