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While a decent amount of domestic glass now gets recycled, the bottles from your local pub are a different story. Every year pubs and clubs throw out 600,000 tonnes of the stuff, and a staggering three quarters of it ends up in landfill. Designer Andy Martin has come up with a range of glassware called Rewind, which takes recycling to a new level.
Martin has been doing his little bit in the last nine years to reuse a tiny portion of thrown-away glass, making drinking glasses from modified bottles. By not re-melting and remoulding the glass, he uses far less energy in the process and gets an unusual result.
For nearly decade, Martin has been selling his glassware exclusively at local London markets. But now, he's branched out and is selling them online via green shop ECOutlet.
"It's also a great way for us to support another small, local, ethical business and as the bottles and glasses are collected and made within a ten-mile radius of our offices, it's helping reduce the environmental impact of our supply chain," says Paul Tuite, co-founder of ECOutlet.
The range includes a variety of bottles, from Corona beer bottles turned into tumblers to cola bottles and even wine and mineral water bottle glasses. You can pick them up online.
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