The invention relates to a system for treating glass containers comprising at least one crushing means and one receiving bin in correspondence and linked to each crushing means, the crushing means being able to receive glass containers and crush, break and shatter them into pieces, each crushing means and the receiving bin thereof being mutually arranged such that the pieces resulting from each crushing means end up arranged and stored in each receiving bin corresponding to each crushing means, the crushing means and the receiving bin thereof further being enabled and mutually arranged such that the receiving bin is reversibly separable from its connection to the crushing means.