Upcycled Beer Bottles
The drinking glasses and carafes are made from upcycled empty beer bottles, a waste product from the hospitality industry of Goa, India. Goa is known for its beautiful beaches and places of worship. Making it a popular tourism destination. Unfortunately, the infamous nightlife scene creates and leaves lots of waste around the area and litter ends up in landfill or nature. Giving a second life to empty beer bottles by upcycling them, contributes to waste reduction and cleans up the area.
Sustainable & local sourcing
The empty beer bottles are collected from hotels, restaurants and bars in Goa and the surrounding areas. The specialised trash pickers collect the bottles and are paid a commercial price so that it becomes a profitable activity. Since there is no well-established waste management or recycling program, this project prevents this litter from ending up in the sea or landfills and helps more people with jobs. The local communities become more aware of the fact that litter actually has value and proactively bring empty bottles to the workshop.
Environmentally friendly production
The empty beer bottles, collected from hotels, restaurants, and bars are carefully sorted on usability and color and are thoroughly cleaned. The craftspeople, mainly women, cut the bottles into different sizes and shapes and sand the edges by hand with a simple sanding machine. This whole process only requires a limited amount of electricity and is therefore environmentally friendly.
Saving resources
By reusing beer bottles, we do not only avoid the negative effect on biodiversity when it ends up in landfills or the sea; It is also a very environmentally friendly way of producing glassware.
Compared to producing new glass, 1 kg of upcycled glass saves:
- 1.2 kg of raw materials
- 0.105 kg of fuel
- 0.9 kg of CO2 emission
Creating job opportunities
The entire sourcing & production process is executed by hand with the support of simple traditional tools. This process creates more job opportunities and income for people in the rural communities where the unemployment and poverty rate is high.
Other Materials & Production
Nature is at the origin of the originalhome collection. To minimize a negative impact on our eco-system we solely use natural, organic, biodegradable, non-toxic and eco-friendly materials and/or materials that would otherwise be considered as waste. The products have been sourced and produced with the lowest environmental impact possible.
