- And the winner is… Hank!
Remember Hank? The singing bottle with an (everlasting) heart of gold?
He was recently named ‘Campaign of the Year’ by the UK’s Packaging News.
Hank the Singing Bottle proved to be an audience favourite. His song ‘I’ll Be Back’ spoke of the renewable nature of glass as rampant lovers, boozy blokes and wayward children cause him to [...] 
- Make a New Year glass resolution!
Here’s one New Year’s resolution that will really make a difference! It’s good for the environment and it’s good for you.
Simply choose one product for 2010 that you will only purchase in glass.
It could be wine, it could be milk, it could be jam, it could be tommy sauce.
And once you’ve picked your product, confirm [...] 
- The sound of Christmas!
Jingle, jingle, tinkle, tinkle!
It’s quite possibly the time of year when we have slightly more glass to recycle than normal, thanks to all the festivities. Here’s a nifty way of spreading some of the Christmas cheer: play Jingle Bells on your bottles, the Jameson way.
Have a go!
- Classy, glassy Christmas tree [video]
An American artist is busy constructing a glass Christmas tree, made entirely of recycled glass.
The people of Bloomington, Illinois, are asked to bring glass artist Jason Mack their used bottles and jars, which he then smelts and shapes into the tree. On Friday, it stood at 20 feet… and it’s still growing. When finished, it [...] 
- A milk bottle on your doorstep
Friends of Glass in the UK are relatively used to the idea of the doorstop delivery of glass bottles of milk.
Around 5 million homes there receive milk each morning, delivered by about 9,500 milkmen and women, which in turn accounts for 13% of all milk consumed at home.
Good milk, perfectly packaged in a glass bottle.
Here’s [...] 
- Giving more than glass
Remember The Friends of Glass House [pictured], which popped up during Choose Glass Week earlier this year?
The House showcased the best of glass, and folks were free to buy any of the beautiful glass objects inside.
Good news is that all the proceeds from glass sales in the House were donated to the Slow Food Foundation [...] 
- Découvrez le tout premier site pédagogique des 8-13 ans sur le recyclage du verre
Fort du solide succès de sa mallette pédagogique, Verre Avenir a souhaité sensibiliser les enfants d’une façon plus moderne, souple et interactive.
Sur www.verreavenirjuniors.fr Chloé, Victor, Lucas, Jam’s et Tom expliquent tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le recyclage du verre avec décontraction et bonne humeur.
Vous y trouverez un espace de téléchargement d’outils de communication réservé [...] 
- Plastic Planet - the movie
‘The whole world is a plastic planet’. So says Werner Boote, director of a new Austrian documentary film now being shown in the country.
Plastic is cheap and practical as we all know too well. But each single piece can leave a legacy of up to 200 years in our natural resources.
Werner shows in this documentary [...] 
- Bottle Bank Arcade - TheFunTheory.com
Une récente initiative ludique et créative pour inciter au recyclage du verre. Je vous laisse la découvrir…et partager votre avis.
- Twitter-friendly glass bottles of wine
We knew it: Twitter must be a Friend of Glass!
The company has recently announced that they will launch 2 glass bottles of wine, in support of the American Room to Read organisation – a non-profit that helps improve literacy rates in small poor countries.
The wines - a 2009 Fledgling Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, will cost [...] 
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