B Rad of the W

This is how it works Timmy. First you go out and buy beer in square bottles. When you get home you drink the beer. After the beer is gone you place the empty bottles in a corner. Once the corner is full and your wife complains of a sour stink you start building. I would build a drinking shed, a place to store more empty bottles and enjoy the drinking you do. It will be a monument to your drinking and you can feel like you are saving the planet. This is a freaking brilliant idea! It really is too damn bad it died in the 60s.

This article on the Heineken WOBO (world bottle) was on Digg Friday. It is a great freaking idea. Instead of demanding a third break light on cars why does the government not set a law that states all glass bottles must be square and lock together. Not that I am a big fan of government intervention but they already dick with more stuff than they should so they might as well be useful.

Even if the bottles do not get used they can still be recycled so you are not harming systems already in place. In Michigan you might not want to use them as each “brick” would cost you a dime because of their bottle deposit. If every glass bottle was built to the same square size some real great things could be done. I can not imagine a bottle like this would double the packaging cost for a company. Hell is might even help boost sales of the products that use a multi use bottle. Everyone wants to do their little part to reduce waste and even if they do not plan to use the bottles themselves I bet a neighbor would.

This is just a fabulous idea and I want to see it come back. Now if I just knew how to get a movement like this started? You can sort of build and do this same thing with current odd sized round bottles but with these “World Bottles” it just looks better and does have a hippy quality to it. With World Bottles the neck of one bottle inserts into a dimple in the bottom of the one next and they all are held together with some sort of mastic or adhesive. It works just like glass block.

More info: Wikipedia, Archinect.com