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So sad that this has to be a museum piece. The bottles could also double as water storage and a heating system. Or be plastic yet filled with sand or something.
by pieterk 7y ago
So sad that this has to be a museum piece. The bottles could also double as water storage and a heating system. Or be plastic yet filled with sand or something.
Wonder how much more expensive these would be to manufacture. Making no waste is priceless though.
- smitty1e 7y agoImagine if there were a collapsible filter you could push through then neck, along with a hole drilled in the bottom. You could get a few in series and have a hasty purification system.
- pieterk 7y agoSo many ideas! Where’s the Mechanical Engineers at? Coca-Cola or Pepsi better see this.
- darkerside 7y agoMany jurisdictions no longer recycle glass (considered too expensive), but will collect for upcycling. Could this be the right time for a renaissance of this type of design? It probably would require incentives from the government, which imo are merely manifesting preexisting externalities.
- bjelkeman-again 7y agoAccording to the European glass recycling organisation it uses 25% less energy to recycle glass than using sand as raw material (as I read their claim). [1] [1] http://www.ferver.eu/en/node/31 http://www.ferver.eu/en/node/31
- hedora 7y agoThere’s also an international sand shortage. It’s an ecological disaster.
- Woberto 7y agoAabsolutely. I use glass bottles for water storage, and while they're a bit cumbersome to refill, I won't ever use plastic for this again. It's nice to know there's nothing leaching into my drinking water, plus carrying them around is good exercise.
- harlanji 7y agoI did this for my first few weeks in construction, need a gallon or more so I end up with a $1 gallon in plastic every day, and recycling earns money for the agency I work through. I will look into a glass gallon when I get a place with a sink. With 1L glass I’d recycle them about weekly and get a fresh bubbly water and keep the bottle for another week.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoI am no expert, but I can imagine they wouldn't be too much more expensive to produce; after all the mass production of glass (or plastic) bottles is a solved problem. In fact, square bottles might be cheaper because you can stuff more of them in a box, less wasted space.