Great Green Design: The Heineken Bottle That Doubles as a Building Material
February 22, 2008 · Print This Article
Here’s another wickedly smart green design idea- manufacture beer bottles so they can be reused as a building material.
Heineken manufactured these purely awesome bottles back in 1963 because one of their brewers saw the lack of cheap building materials and the glut of beachside bottle litter while on vacation in the Caribbean. Functional, green, economical, and gorgeous to boot. We need more of this.
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There’s a little roadside tourist attraction castle/house in southern British Columbia built similarly out of embalming fluid bottles. This is far less creepy.