Our trucks and facility now enable us to process hundreds of thousands of rescued bottles per year with the help of our collection partners, vendors, crew, and the community.
I had been a manufacturing engineer for an aerospace company for 5 years before I resigned to go on a trip around the world. I left because I wanted to find way to combine my passions for art, engineering, and helping the community. 21 countries and 39 cities later I was back in the states, and shortly after in 2008, Refresh Glass began out of a 1 car garage space.
We actively partner with the community to divert thousands of wine bottles every week that would have otherwise been thrown away, working towards our 10 Million Bottle Rescue Mission. Once collected we then transform the bottles into fun and functional glassware and decor such as planters, candle holders, and vases. We can custom engrave our gifts with your logo, the recipients last name, or with any message of your choosing.
We help gift givers build stronger connections over time with the relationships they care about most (the result they really want)
--> through glasses with concurrent style, function and purpose.
We have found that all of us, at our core, would like emotional engagement, functional utility, and community impact weaved into the products and services that we choose to buy if it's possible. At Refresh Glass we call these three Style, Function, and Purpose. After having done this for a few years, focused on our bottle rescue mission, we found that we save even more bottles by focusing on a real world problem of making it easy to order a high quality engraveable gift for those relationships you have with people who dont need more "stuff." Most gifts are one and done and aren't enjoyed or talked about for years to come. The public is looking for innovative solutions that solve their day day challenges in a more conscious and stylish way that doesn't break the bank. We have chosen to embrace this gifting challenge to help our 10 Million Bottle Rescue Mission at the same time.
Our hope is that our business is like a brick in a new foundation or organizations who are committed to concurrent fiscal, emotional, and communal performance for their stakeholders. Stakeholders meaning the environment, community, employees and others too, not just the shareholders. By solving real world problems we have an opportunity to help our missions grow, let our employees know they are making a larger difference, and have the market presence to ensure our fiscal sustainability without the need for grants or donations so that all of those we engage with can benefit on multiple levels. We all get to choose where we spend our time, what we buy, and where we work. Let's innovate and show the world what kinds of multifaceted solutions are possible.
