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Wait! Don’t throw away that applied wine bottle. Just close your eyes, open your mind, and envision all of the new ways you may repurpose that bottle. Instead of contributing to the landfill, or even sending the bottle to your local recycling center, there are galore types of recycled bottle art that may add beauty and functionality to your home and property.

Did you know that glass does not break down in the elements? It may survive in a landfill for, well, we don’t actually know…maybe thousands of years. Made from silica, same as sand, a glass bottle is much like a rock. In fact, there is a 1,685 year old bottle in the History Museum of the Pfalz, in Speyer, Germany that dates back to 325 A.D. (It still holds wine, even though you probably wouldn’t want to drink it.)

All over the world humans have been finding ways to upcycle glass bottles for thousands of years. At times for architectural and ornamental interest and now and then from necessity, beer and wine bottle art has been integrated into everything from actually building homes to making houseplant watering systems.

Intriguing Examples of Recycled Bottle Art

* A gorgeous Thai temple built from over a million beer bottles.

* Plans for building beauteous outdoor grills using wine bottles.

* Photos of houses from the early 1900s in the old American west made from beer bottles (not so much for the intention of recycling, but because lumber and other building materials were hard to come by in that area.)

* Even a Christmas tree made from green bottles stacked in circular layers

Repurposed Bottles on a Simpler Scale

* Hummingbird feeders

* Wine bottle cheese trays (flattened wine bottles used as appetizer trays or spoon rests) These may even be habit etched for special occasions!

* Plant watering globes (insert a water filled wine bottle upside down into a plant watering stake)

* Wine chimes (lovely wind chimes made from cross slices of a bottle)

* Necklaces, earrings, and other jewelry

* Sculpture and ornamental pieces for the home

* Lamps of a good deal of descriptions

Make up your mind today to keep your empty bottles out of the landfill. Whether you determine to send them to your local recycling facility, gather them to build your next home, or use them for wine bottle art pieces you may recognise that your old bottle is realizing it is full potential and not laying around aimlessly taking up space in the dump for the next thousand or more years.