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This flattened glass wine bottle has been hanging around the cash register at the Go Green bottle depot for years; I'm jealous -- I flatten all the plastic, aluminium, and bi-metal containers I cash in, but I just haven't figured out how to do the same with glass. I guessed this would require temperatures in excess of 500 degrees F, meaning a pottery kiln, which seems to be correct. Web pages which detail how to flatten a bottle in an oven all appear to be jokes, or hoaxes. Click image to enlarge.

Apparently the correct term to search is bottle "slumping." One exhaustive page called Bottle Reworking covers slumping using a pottery, or glass fusing, kiln in some detail. Also, here's a link to a Youtube video showing how to melt a bottle neck with a propane torch.

This is Freddie, a beautiful, English Shepherd, the kind of dog that is often neurotically intelligent, and a bit bonkers for the lack of anything to herd. Not Freddie, she's a very phlegmatic dog. That could partly be because she's 13-years-old and has seen it all baby! And, partly because she lives across the street from a bottle depot, and she couldn't compete with that kind of crazy, so why try? Click on the image to enlarge.

This young fellow brought in his household bottles to the Go Green bottle depot on Saturday -- and I've already forgotten his name, the brand name of his scooter, how long he's had it. Sheesh. Not much good am I? I remember he's had it for more than a few months, and he really likes it. It was the coolest ride there, and turned quite a few heads.

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