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“Singing” glass bottles inspire millennials to recycle 

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5 Ways To Use Glass For Your Halloween Decorations At Home

With Halloween right around the bend, we’d like to share 5 ways to use glass around the house for your decorations. Nifty, crafty, and sometimes outright spine-chilling, these ideas will leave your house ready for the big day – the 31st of October!

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Join us in celebrating the International Year of Glass 

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5 ways you can help close the glass loop

We all have a part to play in building a more sustainable world, starting with how we shop, all the way down to how we get rid of our rubbish. This summer, organisations involved in all stages of the glass collection and recycling value chain have launched Close the Glass Loop – a major glass recycling action plan for Europe.

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About Friends of Glass

Friends of Glass is a community that supports all things glass packaging, as part of a more intentional lifestyle that starts with our everyday choices.

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Why Glass?

Learn why we love glass, and why we’re dedicated to promoting its numerous benefits to people all over the world.

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Join a growing community of people who care about a better planet and a healthier lifestyle.

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Hear stories from the community, and discover all the reasons why choosing glass is better for us, as part of a more intentional lifestyle.

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Glass is beautiful, and now more than ever artists are working with it to produce spectacular pieces of art.

See this out of this world art in glass from Colossal!

Space Glass

Artist Satoshi Tomizu sculpts tiny glass spheres that are made to look like galaxies. He uses a mixture of precious metals such as silver and gold and smaller bits of glass to create these masterpieces. Want one for yourself? You will have to wait like the rest of us, these out of this world creations are sold out due to high demand.

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Want to see artist Satoshi Tomizu in action making his so called Space Glass? See this video!

Marine Life Imagined in Glass

Danish artist Steffen Dam takes the world of glass to a whole new level. Think these marine animals are real? Think again! Steffen uses different coloured glass to mimic marine animals in incredible detail.

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Glass Wave Vessels

These glass sculptures by artist Graham Muir from Scotland bring about an kind of inner peace. Using crashing ocean waves as inspiration, he makes these very delicate shapes by finely molding the glass while it is still at very high temperatures.

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Knit Glass Sculptures

US artist Carol Milne creates glass sculptures that look like the delicate pattern of knitted fabric.

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Want to know how she does it? Watch this video by  which showcases how Carol produces these pieces.

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