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Revamped and Recycled with BottleHood
These fantastic utility jars, serving platters and candlesticks are brought to you by Bottlehood – a company whose work involves the fantastic reuse of wine, beer, liquor, soda and water bottles that are usually discarded. Their glassware is made from discarded bottles from local restaurants, bars, homes and community events and designed with an emphasize on practicality and customization. Bottlehood also will accept your own bottles and create custom pieces to your specifications (minimum of 4 qty) – a great idea for a housewarming gift or Father’s Day!
I love what BottleHood is doing for our planet. This company is recycling and re-purposing glassware from wine, beer, liquor, and soda bottles from restaurants, bars, homes, and community events. They turn them into jewelry, bowls, shot glasses, tumblers, and much, much more!
I received their Coca Cola Bottle Juice Glasses. This eco-friendly set of four glasses measure 4″ tall and 2.25″ in diameter. They are small, sweet and are made from limited edition Coke bottles that are currently being released. They’re perfect for your morning juice or try using them as unique bud vases!
Don’t you just love what BottleHood is doing for our neighborhoods?!? This company is just absolutely phenomenal.
With Hanukkah just around the corner, Bottlehood comes up with an eco-friendly yet stunning menorah that will add a bright touch to the festival of lights. The menorah makes use of reclaimed oak wine barrel staves and recylced Patron Tequila bottle necks designed to hold the candles, preferably soy or beeswax ones, adding to the green factor.
Is Another Person’s Treasure! BottleHood has quickly made a name for themselves not only in San Diego, but worldwide!
Co-Founders Steve Cherry and Leslie Tiano and a staff of over twenty take liquor, wine, beer and soda bottles that are headed to the landfill and turns them into a broad line of glassware, light fixtures and jewelry. BottleHood’s success is a reflection of neighborhood sentiment and support for what BottleHood stands for, “a pride in our neighborhood, our local craftsmen and entrepreneurs, and our social responsibility.”
Sweet Greens does BottleHood giveaway in December 2011.
If it isn’t recycled, glass takes more than 4,000 years to break down. BottleHood reclaims glass from local restaurants, bars and events and repurposes it into everything from glassware to lamps to jewelry. The company even reuses the wood from barrels for platters to make functional housewares, going beyond typical drinking glasses to additional, creative designs.
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Now that you know one of the Go to Girls is on point with her Holiday Cards, by her own admission in this post, I felt like I should come clean in regards to the fact that I am beginning my Christmas shopping. I ALWAYS get this burst of efficiency as soon as I begin seeing jack O’lanterns pop up around the hood. Now that I have thrown that declaration out there, please note that any of you out finishing up your shopping during the last days before Santa makes an appearance will ALWAYS run into me frantically getting my last few gifts. So, don’t beat yourself up too much. I digress.
Bottlehood is a great little retailer that I have wanted to share for quite a while now. Headquartered in San Diego, CA,Bottlehood repurposes wine, beer, and spirit bottles into amazing glassware. These thinkers are keeping discarded glass out of landfills (which they tell me takes 4000 years to decompose!!!) and providing jobs to boost their local economy. Love.
Personally, I’m a sucker for little teeny glasses, and so the Coca-Cola juice glasses pictured above are some of my faves. Insert a longing sigh here. ($27 for a set of 4)
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Upcycle. Most of us are familiar with the first three words, but what the heck is upcycling?
“Upcycling” is the newest anti-landfill term that means creating something new from a discarded object or material, without first breaking it down to its elemental state. An upcycled glass bottle, for instance, isn’t melted down and recast as a new bottle; instead, it’s cut and re-created as a tumbler or vase.
On the ecological food chain, upcycling is a step up from recycling. While recycling a bottle is economically and environmentally better than burying it in a landfill, it’s also energy-intensive in a way that upcycling is not.
BottleHood Colorado is a Boulder-based business that upcycles bottles. Owner Rachel Cohen modeled her company after the original BottleHood in San Diego, Calif., which she visited after graduating from the University of Colorado in 2009. One look at the green business and she knew “this is exactly what I want to be doing. It’s an amazing thing to turn trash into jobs.”