I took the above picture yesterday morning whilst walking the dogs. My interpretation was that someone had been drinking beer on the beach, and then smashed the bottle. Some other safety conscious person then picked it up and placed it on the groyne (neglecting the other bits of broken glass). I then saw it and thought “what lazy bugger put that bottle there rather than taking it to the bin” and just photographed it and left it there.
Guilt. I’m no better than the person who put the bottle on the post, but hopefully a little better than the person who smashed the bottle. I hope to be able to fix my inaction by taking it to the bin in a short while when I walk the dogs this morning. I don’t want to be an “all mouth and no trousers” person as Eric Morecambe so incisively put it a long time ago. I must walk an anti-litter walk as well as just talking it.
There are much better things that can be done with old bottles than simply dumping them. The picture below is one I took a while ago at the “Centre for Alternative technology”, or CAT, at Machynlleth. It’s a bottle wall that could be used in construction of a house. It lets a lot of light in, is completely environmentally sound and also provides good insulation. The bottles are held in place using Daub, which is basically mud:
It’s pretty too, I think.
Cheers, Tom.