BottleStone meets two macro trends that have become alarmingly clear to builders and architects alike:

1. The amount of carbon in our atmosphere is potentially catastrophic.

2. Humans are producing more waste than can be handled.

Builders and architects are demanding new materials to address these two issues in the $24 billion "Green building materials" segment of the $1.6 trillion US construction industry. BottleStone serves as one answer to this looming environmental crisis. BottleStone's proprietary, stone-like ceramic product, made of 80% recycled glass has multiple attributes found in no other single hard surface material and it will be a "game-changer" as a unique and environmentally favored product.

Architects need new materials with which to express themselves and meet the builder's design requirements. At the same time, they cannot ignore expense nor functionality: safety, durability, and maintenance. Similarly, the builders' contractors and sub-contractors must find the material similar enough to existing materials that there are no barriers for estimating, ordering, fabricating, and installing. BottleStone meets all of these needs.

BottleStone uses a breakthrough, patent-pending, process to convert recycled waste glass into a stone-like ceramic product that can replace numerous interior and exterior building materials (such as slab granite, marble, etc.) It can be less expensive than traditional as well as many new 'green' products and its manufacture creates as little as 40% of the carbon-footprint of the products it can replace.

BottleStone production has 42% the carbon footprint of cast concrete yet 3 times the flexure strength and is one-third the weight. It is stronger and as hard and dense as granite. Unlike quarried stone it can be molded and shaped like cast concrete which reduces or eliminates fabrication costs. It is capable of aesthetic variances and consistencies unlike natural stone.

The aesthetics are more like engineered stone (quartz) but with the 'feel' of real stone--yet at a lower price point. It is larger than any tile, yet it can be molded as thin as tile, and like tile, can be glazed with hundreds of colors and textures. Unlike its other "green" glass competitors, it can utilize any kind of post-consumer or post-industrial glass waste dust that has no use other than landfill. As well as adding decorative attributes, the glass is the primary source of strength in the product as a ceramic it is highly heat resistant (1500°F) with thermal absorption or reflective properties.