Dress up your home with recycled glass tiles

Tiles are an excellent home application because they can be used for so many things – back splashes in bathrooms or kitchens, counters, you can tile a whole darn wall, surface a swimming pool, use glass tiles in mosaics in the garden or on a fountain, used to highlight an outside walkway, and more. Tiles are also easy to clean and look great. You can get tiles that add a pop of color or tiles that brighten a room.

What kind of tiles to get:

If you want your home to be green, look for recycled glass tiles. Various manufactures use varied percentages of recycled glass in their tiles and also each company will have different eco-policies and ethics in place. One cool place for recycled tiles is Stardust Glass.

Stardust is nice because they offer their tiles at a number of stores but will also work with consumers directly. Stardust Glass creates sustainable, handmade decorative glass tiles made from 87-97% recycled glass; pre-consumer scrap glass, that’s typically headed for the landfill. They also use recyclable materials for product packing and shipping. Plus they use a kiln to fuse their glass tiles, rather than a furnace. A furnace uses more energy and produces more harmful emissions than a kiln.

Additionally their tiles come in a wide range of styles and colors. Click on a gallery picture below to see their work up close…