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bottle bank beaches

 create green beaches from wine bottles
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Instead of recycling white-wine bottles why not chuck them into huge concrete mixer style machines, add a few metal balls and grind them into green sand.

The green sand could then be used to add layers to existing beaches to turn them green or create new green beaches where the previous beach has been washed away.

They could also be used to create lake-side green beaches in countries with little coastline.

—humanzee, Oct 03 2003

Bristol Blue Glass http://www.bristolb...glass.com/jugs.html
[jonthegeologist, Oct 17 2004]

Exmoor Red Glass http://www.exmoorglass.co.uk/
[jonthegeologist, Oct 17 2004]

Tibetan Sand Painting http://shorock.com/.../show.html?pix=2533
[RayfordSteele, Oct 17 2004]

recycled glass seems to find its way into quite a few places already http://www.sustaina....uk/recyc_glass.htm
[po, Oct 17 2004]

Glass Beach http://www.fortbragg.com/glass_beach/
Sort of baked, by accident. [Worldgineer, Oct 17 2004]

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       is this stuff ok to eat if you get some in your picnic sand wiches?
—po, Oct 03 2003
   

       Nice idea if the edges are ground smooth, but where are you going to take sand for new bottles?
—FarmerJohn, Oct 03 2003
   

       perfectly safe as its made of the same stuff as normal sand. I like it.   

       Additional blue beaches can be generated using Bristol Blue Glass [see link]. I rather like the juxtaposition of blue sea and blue beach.   

       Furthermore, maybe Exmoor Red Glass [see link] could be used to highlight a dangerous beach. Surely better than the current flag scheme?   

       [fj] - coloured sand beaches formed in this way could allow the manufacture of similarly coloured glass bottles. A neat perpetual loop?
—jonthegeologist, Oct 03 2003
   

       Lay different colors down in layers, for that 'sandscape sculpture' look.   

       A new beach artform quickly develops; colored-sand sculptures, which slowly wash away.   

       Thousands of years later, Californian beach-buddhists, (now isolated from society like Tibetan monks by the earthquake of 3571), occupy their time hanging ten and creating detailed murals from colored grains...
—RayfordSteele, Oct 03 2003
   

       Would steel balls in a "mixer" be the most efficient way? I think a high-speed granulator would be in order.
—fogfreak, Oct 03 2003
   

       I think recyclers use granulators, at least for plastics. Don't know about glass. Glass is pretty hard and maybe mechanical granulating using knives (like most high speed granulators) might not be possible. Perhaps something more like a burr grinder?
—bristolz, Oct 03 2003
   

       po's link says that recycled glass sand, cullet, is already used as beach sand.
—FarmerJohn, Oct 03 2003
   

       What happens 30 years after people use a beach as a public dump? It ends up very pretty. This is a fun place to take childeren - they can spend hours collecting pretty smooth glass pebbles. See link.
—Worldgineer, Oct 03 2003
   

       fuck this, are you sure I won't get cuts on my paws?
—The Kat, Oct 03 2003
   

       The glass at glass beach is very smooth. Maybe not litter box smooth though.
—Worldgineer, Oct 03 2003
   

       now.. if they had the machine ON the beach, you could take a nice bottle of wine with you and recycle it on the spot. nice one [humanzee]
—neilp, Oct 04 2003
   
      
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