{"id":62471,"date":"2009-12-04T01:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T06:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-arts-artist-creates-sustainable-bus-shelter-from-soft-drink-bottles\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T01:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T06:58:51","slug":"eco-arts-artist-creates-sustainable-bus-shelter-from-soft-drink-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/62471","title":{"rendered":"Eco Arts: Artist creates sustainable bus shelter from soft drink bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/04\/bottlestop_2_391dK_69.jpg\" alt=\"bottlestop_2\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factors:<\/strong> Solar-powered bus shelter made from recycled glass bottles. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen glass bottles being recycled to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-recycling-undertaker-at-work-a-glasshouse-built-from-embalming-bottles\/\">houses<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-architecture-recycling-for-god-buddhist-temple-made-from-one-million-beer-bottles\/\">temples<\/a>. Eco-minded artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronscales.com\/\">Aaron Scales<\/a> has his hands on bottle recycling and has come up with a sustainable bus shelter that has been constructed from soft drink bottles. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/04\/bottlestop_1_C6Vss_69.jpg\" alt=\"bottlestop_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Designed for a national design competition, the Bottlestop project makes use of recycled green bottles of Kentucky soft drink Ale-8-One to integrate art, architecture and advertising into a new public transit concept.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/04\/bottlestop_3_LJgR6_69.jpg\" alt=\"bottlestop_3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LED lighting is engineered to illuminate the clear bottles with solar energy collected by day, and a series of laser-etched bottles adorn the shelter with unique art. The &#8220;street furniture&#8221; bench rises from the ground plane to form differently sized seating options for diverse users, prevents sleeping, and continues outside of the shelter to house an integrated trash receptacle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/04\/bottlestop_4_dpG4q_69.jpg\" alt=\"bottlestop_4\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/04\/bottlestop_5_YCHxI_69.jpg\" alt=\"bottlestop_5\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/04\/bottlestop_6_zaWPY_69.jpg\" alt=\"bottlestop_6\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for the tip:<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronscales.com\/\"><strong><em>Aaron Scales<\/em><\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factors: Solar-powered bus shelter made from recycled glass bottles. We\u2019ve seen glass bottles being recycled to make houses and even temples. Eco-minded artist Aaron Scales has his hands on bottle recycling and has come up with a sustainable bus shelter that has been constructed from soft drink bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}