Green Building, Product Spotlight:

Glass Act

Contributed By: ecofabulous

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.