Archive for February, 2008
Video: Bottles can now be put into green bins
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Old wine bottles and jars could become new bottles or used to make a lasting energy-saving contribution, including new insulation materials or aggregates for the construction of roads and car parks.
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Flea market, Japan style
Friday, February 29th, 2008Hampton Roads Daily Press - We also meet glassblower Ikuo Hayashi, who travels four hours from Wakayama to Kobo-san each month to sell the wares he makes from Osaka whiskey bottles and colored wine bottles: sun catchers, about $2.50 to $5; hanging wall vases, about $18.
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Trolling for a fish fry?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Arlington Heights Daily Herald - Half-off wine bottles on Fridays. Steitz’s Resort, 25400 W. Bluff Lane, Antioch, (847) 395-4050, www.steitzs.com. 4:30 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 4:30 to 9 p.m.
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Call for more half wine bottles - BBC News
Thursday, February 28th, 2008BBC News
Call for more half wine bottlesBBC News, UK - 8 hours agoBritish wine lovers may binge drink because they have little option but to buy large bottles, says the deputy editor of the British Medical Journal. …Medical expert calls on shops to downsize wine bottles ScotsmanBinge Britain: Retailers told to help stop middle-class drinkers … […]
Call for more half wine bottles
Thursday, February 28th, 2008BBC News - British wine lovers may binge drink because they have little option but to buy large bottles, says the deputy editor of the British Medical Journal. Making half-bottles of wine cheaper and more available could quell the temptation to drink too much …
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Binge Britain: Retailers told to help stop middle-class drinkers …
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Daily Mail - Writing in the BMJ, Dr Groves says she believes reducing the size of wine bottles would curtail consumption and harm, although it is “easier said than done”
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Binge Britain: Retailers told to help stop middle-class drinkers … - Daily Mail
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Daily Mail
Binge Britain: Retailers told to help stop middle-class drinkers …Daily Mail, UK - Feb 28, 2008Writing in the BMJ, Dr Groves says she believes reducing the size of wine bottles would curtail consumption and harm, although it is “easier said than done” …
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Medical expert calls on shops to downsize wine bottles - Scotsman
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Medical expert calls on shops to downsize wine bottlesScotsman, United Kingdom - Feb 28, 2008SUPERMARKETS should stock half bottles of wine to stop middle aged people drinking too much, a leading doctor has warned. The drinking culture, particularly …
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Project Runway 4
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Dayton Daily News - When they went in, they found “lots of empty beer cans and wine bottles,” and about a dozen people in the home, he said. One person, a male, was found hiding in the attic, he said. A drug-sniffing police dog made hits on a couple cars parked outside …
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Send in the corks
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Santa Rosa Press Democrat - The organic wine is all gone and you’ve managed to get mighty creative with all those empty wine bottles, now you can help out kids with the corks. Korks for Kids is a nonprofit organization started in 2007 through Pennslyvania-based Recycle Cork …
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