Although we attended the Gift Fair yesterday primarily to look at packaging, at one of the booths we visited it wasn't the packaging but the product itself that caught our attention. The Green Glass Company from Weston, Wisconsin makes glasses and goblets from discarded bottles in a pretty ingenious and energy efficient way. Their patented process involves dividing the bottle into two pieces and with a relatively small expenditure of fossil fuel energy they transform the lip of the bottle into a closed goblet base. They make a logical point that this uses significantly less energy than conventional methods of recycling glass where the entire bottle must be melted to remake the glass into some other form.
(Two more photos after the jump)
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