Too Much Beer

My roommate Jake and I are filling up our "beer wall." We have to place a new bottle on the wall for every new kind of beer we try. Our other roommate doesn't drink and hates looking at it. He wants to start a "juice wall." Jake and I really should slow down though. Each of those bottles came from a six or twelve pack. That doesn't include repeats. Here's a close up to better see the brands:

While Jake and I get fat and stupid from drinking all this beer here are some interesting facts on recycling glass bottles I found from Oberlin College:

• Glass doesn't wear out; it can be recycled indefinitely. For every ton of glass recycled, over a ton of resources are saved: 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pounds of feldspar.
• Most bottles and jars contain at least 25% recycled glass.
• States with bottle deposit laws have 35-40% less litter by volume.
• Americans toss out enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill up the 1.350-foot towers of the former World Trade Center.
• If all glass bottles and jars recycled in the U.S. in 1994 were laid end to end, they'd stretch to the moon and half way back to earth.

As sophomorically cool as the beer wall appears, it is kind of juvenile. I think once we fill up the wall, we should take everything down to recycling. We'll see.

"Recycling facts." Oberlin College Resource Conservation Team. 2001. Web. 20 November 2010.