Glass Act
Date: July 9, 2009 | Category: Events, Green Building, Home Furnishings, Kitchen, The Home
Ever wonder where your curbside recycled glass goes? Bet you never thought it could end back up in the kitchen – this time in the form of a counter slab, rather than a bottle in the fridge! Vetrazzo countertops use 100% recycled glass (making up 85% of the total slab material) to create unique, light-catching counters for both residential and commercial settings (you may have seen it at your local Whole Foods).
Rather than mining a non-renewable virgin stone resource, Vetrazzo counters use recycled glass – the majority of which comes from curbside recycling programs, but also includes old windows, dinnerware & stemware and even decommissioned traffic lights! We recently featured the Palladian Gray color in the Reclaimed Space showhouse at Dwell on Design for a cool color that played off the white painted (no VOC, of course!) metal walls.
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