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Posted by hipstomp | 2 Jun 2010
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Development company Macro Sea, the firm that famously turned dumpsters into swimming pools last year, is at it again. This time the constituent parts are bulletproof glass and beer bottles, and the aim is recycling:
This whole recycling and green thing has gotten so damn boring in recent years that we felt we had to do something. GLASSPHEMY! celebrates the illicit thrill of breaking bottles while working through deeply rooted emotional issues (and sort of saving the planet a little).
GLASSPHEMY! is Macro-Sea's visceral and psychological recycling center. We have built a 20-foot high, 30-foot long steel tower specifically designed to allow you to hurl glass bottles at your friends, enemies, and loved ones while they are safely tucked away behind bulletproof glass.
We will be collecting bottles from some local Brooklyn bars and then recycling the glass on site. We will be making cool lights, pulverizing the glass for use as environmental fill or topsoil, and through a contest sponsored by Readymade magazine opening up the project to people with other interesting recycling ideas.
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Recycling means taking a product, breaking it down, and reforming it back into the same thing. Beer bottle to beer bottle. Pulverizing it for fill is called downcycling because it can never be used again. The loop ends, and virgin material is required to make the new beer bottle. "Making cool lights" is not recycling either since they will wind up in the trash sooner or later.
Glassphemy.... Now that's funny. Took me awhile to get it, but I am part polack, so I have an excuse.
Cant wait to change the bulb tho...
Actually, it's called reuse.
Repurposing a material extends its life span. (eventually even this light could be recycled or repurposed in some way)