AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
recycling, environment
COUNTRY
New Zealand
DESIGNED BY
DB Export
WEBSITE
http://dbexportbeer.co.nz/competitions/db-beer-bottle-sand
Beer Bottle Sand
This machine crushes beer bottles into sand to save beaches
A New Zealand based company have come up with a new way of recycling glass bottles. They describe it best themselves:
"When you drink beers you have ideas. So when we heard that two thirds of the world’s beaches were retreating, we cracked a couple of DB Exports and thought of a plan. To help save New Zealand’s beaches we’re turning empty bottles of DB Export into a sand substitute. That’s right, the answer to the global sand shortage could be drinking beer! DB Export Beer Bottle Sand will be given to construction companies and anyone else who needs it, reducing the dependence on beach-derived sand."