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February 3, 2008
Package Becomes Product
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)
Randy Ludacer
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Thanks for participating in the DCCT. I was diagnosed with diabetes a little over a year after the DCCT ended.
It is interesting that you’re on your third pump in eighteen years. Does this mean a pump only lasts six years on average? Or were there other reasons for getting a new one?
Take care,
Adam
Adam, Thanks for commenting! I’m actually on my 4th pump now…
http://www.blog.beachpackagingdesign.com/2008/11/paradigm-pump-p.html
Not so much because they break down, but because the companies that make them–like computer companies–are constantly upgrading their features rendering the previously miraculous models: obsolete. I keep meaning to look into whether or not some medical device hand-me-down program might not exist, but, I suppose, there might be some murky liability issues with that idea.