A Better Beer Bottle
In 1963, the Heineken World Bottle, the“brick that holds beer”, was created after Mr. Heineken visited the Caribbean. He saw two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable building materials. The solution: beer bottle bricks!
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Check out the Thai Buddhist temple made from one million recycled beer bottles!
When is this great idea coming to Canada? We get charged a deposit fee that we get back when we return the bottle, but I like this idea better! If all beer bottles sold in Canada were the same size and shape, we would be a well housed bunch of drunks anyway!
These people will by definition live in glass houses…..
What a brilliant idea.
With glass recycling reaching new lows this would be an excellent way to encourage re-use of the material.
Neat idea, but wouldn’t it get awfully hot? It would be like living in an aquarium.
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You could fill each bottle with sand. It would be very highly insulating.
Awesome. Fill most of them with sand and leave some empty for “windows” to let in natural light. They need to bring this concept back.
filling them with sand would work as a thermal mass, helping to regulate the temperature in the home. Used correctly with sun angles and external or internal insulation, it could be made very efficient.
No throwing stones?
What a great idea! Fill them with shredded newspaper or sand or shredded styrofoam for both insulation and to lessen the landfill! Consider all the colorful possibilites. We need affordable housing–it presents itself here!
If more companies thought in this visionary way, we could change the face of poverty planetwide. I would love getting 2 uses out of my beer.