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Buy it for Life@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

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Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

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Buy it for Life@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

In the 1980s, a company called Superfest pioneered extra strong glass – but it disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now it’s making a comeback

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This is the first time in my life I’ve heard that broken glass isn’t recyclable. That’s wild…

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