I’m not sure where to actually post this question, but I figure it could fall under “where can I find a place to dispose of large broken items”.
I live in the Shida night market 師大夜市 area in Taipei, and while this mirror is not full-length, it’s big enough that it’s hardly stuffable in a trash bag, and I’m not sure the trash truck people would like it if I just brought it over to them?
This falls under the category of large furniture items, for which there is a specif office in charge. Look for a plaque where the name and number of your zone chief or lizhang is. Usually, it will also include the phone number of the large item removal office in your neighborhood. Make an appointment, they will tell you when and where to leave the stuff for them to collect.
2)put the pieces into doubled up paper bag.
3)put that paper bag into a Taipei City trash bag.
4)throw in garbage truck.
Just leave it in the street, propped up by an old toilet - only joking 
Put the shards in a box. The garbage men may make an exception, like they did when I threw out the pieces of a shattered wall mirror.
To avoid bad fortune, the broken mirror should be either be ground into dust, buried under a tree during a full moon, or tossed into in a river flowing south.
nonono. Old toilets should only be dumped at the back of derelict houses, preferably in nearby woodland. Have you no respect for tradition?
Anyway OP, the break-it-up-in-small-pieces sounds like the simplest idea. There’s not actually much glass in a mirror. Before you do that though, have you asked the recycle truck if they can take it?
hmm thanks for the reply everyone, i am leaning towards breaking up the mirror even more to stuff in a bag, and giving the plastic sides to the recycle man… -_- as far as the zone chief plaque, do they just place it on a random building wall? Thanks again…
you fool…it has to be during the waxing gibbous phase…if you bury it during a full moon you get seven times seven years bad luck!
Nope, it is suppposed to be on the main door of your building, front face or if indoors, in a very conspicuous place. It is small, though.
Do you live in a gongwu or a high rise with guard? The guards would know, if so. If in a gongwu, there is always a neighbor who is in charge of collecting money for common repairs, like washing the stairs, painting the halls and other stuff. Or wait until the next garbag collection gathering and ask one of the neighbors.
when I was a kid in Miao-Li, every afternoon, there was always an old man riding tricycle cargo cart yelling in our alley: “buy wine bottles, newspaper, broken pans, broken glasses…”. We would wait there and sell him whatever metal, glass, paper garbage we could find for 50 cents. Then we wait for the ice scream man to come with his cart…
I guess there is no more such people buying broken glass anymore?
Yeah, isn’t that a pity? When I was a kid (in England) we had a similar ancient guy-with-cart collecting scrap who was followed by an even more ancient guy-with-cart selling toffee apples. Thinking about it now, I suspect the former had better hygiene than the latter. If you tried that today you’d be ripped to pieces by an army of jobsworths from the council quoting EU regulations at you.
[quote=“cyathula”]I’m not sure where to actually post this question, but I figure it could fall under “where can I find a place to dispose of large broken items”.
I live in the Shi-Da night market 師大夜市 area in Taipei, and while this mirror is not full-length, it’s big enough that it’s hardly stuffable in a trash bag, and I’m not sure the trash truck people would like it if I just brought it over to them?[/quote]
Give it to one of the recycling people that divert people on the way to the trash truck. They seem to take everything and don’t care about it being sorted properly.