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| On my table, a soda in a re-purposed wine bottle reflecting the winter sun! |
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| Our juice glasses..... |
BottleHood was founded by a couple of folks in San Diego who took their concerns for the environment and decided to “do” something about it. BottleHood is a collective team of neighborhood craftspeople (jeweler, weaver, graphic designer) who share an interest in today's environment.
BottleHood has taken a stand on keeping bottles which have no California Redemption Value (CRV) out of California’s landfills or sent overseas to be recycled.
It is just really all about theneighborhood and helping extend the life of discarded glass.
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| Absolut Vodka bottle (now a vase) |
All BottleHood glassware was created from wine, liquor, beer, soda and water bottles from local San Diego restaurants, bars and events.
No part of the bottle goes to waste....jewelry, beads, spoonrests, etc. etsy recycled glass jewelry and etsy BottleHood beads
The thing about glass taking 4000 years to degrade in a landfill; where did THAT come from? To talk about glass degrading is the same as talking about a rock degrading, it's a matter of conditions, weathering, etc. How long would it take for a volcanic rock to degrade in a landfill, and what does that mean? Soda lime glass is a relatively inert inorganic material that can be subject to attack by acids over time, a very long time, but those would be pretty special conditions. The NRC plans to store radioactive waste in glass for millions of years. Albeit special glass, but basically the same molecular structure.
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