You are absolutely right, this is not a new idea at all. But we too often forget that there are no new ideas, just new perspectives of the same old ones. So, again, why don’t give those used brown beer bottles a new hope for life? Because…
… it is easy, super affordable and makes you more eco-conscious person.
What do I mean by that? Well, it is very possible we are not putting enough value and importance on simple beer bottles, do we? We had few beers with friends on hot Summer evening, so what? Bottles just go to the bin (and not necessarily to the recycling one) or even worse, are being left to lie at the beach, for example.
Better to make some… table numbers for your wedding, isn’t it?
You don’t have any calligraphic skills you say? Believe me, neither do I! I cleaned off the first numbers from my first experiments to write anything on these bottles (the good thing is that acrylic paint I used goes off from the glass very easy, especially while wet). However, even after few attempts the numbers didn’t look nice, even a bit ugly and too bulky, if you know what I mean… Nah, not a problem for me, you know. I wouldn’t be me if I wouldn’t find a solution (and I strongly believe there is no reason to be ashamed of that). So I waited for the paint to dry a bit and just used some sand paper to create a weared off, old patina effect (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone, ha ha). But, I mean, if I can do it, then You definitely can do it and it even will look much nicer! Was very fast and (almost) effortless and the only expenses here was the money spend to purchase a small container of sand colour acrylic paint.
Oh, and I’ve been talking before about higher level of eco-consciousness, didn’t I?
So, actually, this morning I was sorting out our waste. So I just washed off the acrylic paint from these bottles (believe it or not, it was super easy as this paint is water based!) and put all four nicely into the recycling bin. Just like that – neat ant clean glass bottles waiting to be recycled! Because
Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without loss in quality or purity – something few food and beverage packaging options can claim.
– Glass Packaging Institute, USA
And you know what? I very proud of myself because I managed to reuse these beer bottles (and it’s a bigger challenge to reuse these kind of glass containers than, for example, simple glass jars) and when I used all means for them to be recycled. Hurrah!!