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Green Gifts: Glasses Made from Salvaged Beer Bottles

This weekend we got a totally unique housewarming gift – tumblers made from salvaged beer bottles. The glasses come from Etsy sellers ReusefulObjects who salvages used bottles such as wine, beer & juice to make drinking glasses. Each bottle is cut, and then the rim is ground, sanded, and polished for a very smooth edge.

Some of glasses the duo produces has a permanent design printed by the manufacturer, which is a fun detail. But they all have an original design that they have hand-drawn and permanently etched into the glass. They also do custom work depending on how complicated the design is. Each set is made to order, 4 tumblers for $25-60 depending on intricacy of etching.
We’ve seen reused bottles before, but ReusefulObjects has done a beautiful etching job. The glasses will be perfect way to enjoy some agua fresca on these final summer days.

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These are awesome! For my wedding we found out the town we were getting married in was having a recycling issue when their main truck broke down for a while. A friend of mine living locally rescued a bunch of green wine bottles and cut them for drinking at our reception dinner. They since got gifted to a bunch of locals and luckily their recycling program is up and running again.

posted by kmarie on 2008-08-22 01:05:00
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Lovely! It's amazing what a little reusing can do!

posted by xieta on 2008-09-24 12:29:58
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So how exactly does one cut them? i think that is very cool!

posted by labchick on 2008-10-04 09:41:41
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I am also interested in how-to information.

posted by georgianss on 2008-10-07 14:30:26
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labchick & georgianss - check out this post about how to cut glass bottles.

posted by Rachelw on 2008-10-15 23:07:44
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