Abstract: A machine for destructing glass medicine vials comprises a housing having a cover with glass vial input tubes mounted thereon such that the tubes pass through a top surface of the cover. Located within the housing is a motor-driven rotor on which is mounted at least one pair of generally circular disks, where the disks have insets formed therein defining a pocket for receiving a portion of a vial therein. The rotor is positioned such that a vial dropped down the vial inlet tube will come to rest on the periphery of the pair of disks with a portion of the vial still disposed in the tube. The vial will ultimately drop into their insets as the rotor turns. A tooth formed in the periphery of the insets fractures the vial and the shards fall through an open bottom of the housing.