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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by darkerside on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:48PM (#22724785)
Many 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.
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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by bjelkeman-again on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:16AM (#22725871)
According 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

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Re:Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick by hedora on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:48PM (#22734512)
There’s also an international sand shortage. It’s an ecological disaster.
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