I sometime go to a local vineyard and I always give them whatever bottles I've accumulated. They sterilize and reuse. They have some interesting information about the bottles on their web page. General page
Did you know that more than 300 million cases of wine are sold in the United States each year? An estimated 70% of these wine bottles end up in our local landfills (per the EPA) and for every ton of glass that we have to replace, 384 lb. of mining waste is created. For every ton of glass that we have to replace, we have to use 1,330 lb. of sand, 433 lb. of soda ash, 433 lb. of limestone, 30 lb. of air pollution and 151 lb. of feldspar.
Glass wine and beer bottles never wear out and they can be recycled and reused forever. By only using recycled wine and beer bottles, we have reduced our carbon footprint by a whopping 60%!