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Street furniture made from recovered glass
After sharing a meal with family and friends with some wine, it’s good to know the joy of sharing doesn’t stop there. The empty bottles are turned into ground glass that is then integrated into street furniture you will find in two parks in Montreal and Quebec City.
The original installations gracing the Beauclerk park (Montreal) and the grounds of the Université Laval campus (Quebec City)
What happens to the bottles of your favourite products is something we take to heart every day at the SAQ. Which is why we created the Mobilier urbain SAQ competition aimed at students of Université de Montréal’s (UdeM) and Université Laval’s (UL) environmental design program, inviting them to think up a piece of street furniture that fosters sharing and incorporates recovered glass.
Their creations were given form and are already added to public spaces in Montreal and Quebec City.
Work by Timothé Duchastel-Paré, UdeM winner.
Work by Laurent Gauthier-Pelletier, Mélanie Hamel-Auger, Morgane LeNoury, Yannycka St-Pierre and Séléna Tremblay, UL winners.
Quebec ingenuity serving the environment
These pieces of street furniture help bring attention to the use of ground glass in concrete – a made-in-Quebec innovation discovered by the researchers at the Chaire SAQ de valorisation de verre dans les matériaux de l’Université de Sherbrooke. It is an excellent way to give recovered glass a second life!
The competition’s winning entries not only add value to the use of glass, but their addition to two public spaces will contribute to revitalizing community life in neighbourhoods and encourage citizens to get together. #thespiritofsharing
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