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“Singing” glass bottles inspire millennials to recycle 

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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

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To inspire millennials to recycle more and better, we teamed up with well-known celebrities to bring glass bottles in an endless chorus. This campaign was inspired by the findings of a 2017 Europe-wide survey commissioned by Friends of Glass alongside with research agency InSites, which found that while 85% of Europeans recommended glass packaging to their friends and family, millennials were less aware of its benefits.  

So, in our quest to tell the story of glass recycling, we took over a bar in Brussels to spread the message in a memorable way. Our “singing bottles” took centre stage, surprising bar customers and inviting them on a musical journey through the decades. 

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Danish band The Bottle Boys partnered up with one of UK’s most successful rapper and comedian, Ben Bailey Smith – aka Doc Brown – to do a series of covers on iconic hits of the last 10 decades (1910s-2000s). They bring to life the likes of Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Petula Clark, Kool and the Gang, and Peter Bjorn and John for a mashup highlighting the different lives of glass and its benefits.

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