As a glassblower and a brewer, I geek out about bottles especially these flip top ones. They have resealable top that make it so they can be opened and closed easily without a tool and reused without replacing the cap so long as they are washed. Literally all the bottles I use for my second ferment are recycled bottles. We found a few (temporary) local sources of beverages that came in them and bought them up. For the beer, we had our english friend take care of the insides and give us the bottles.

The green ones were a rare find when I was at a friends and I noticed he happened to have a empty four pack of these bottles sitting basically in the trash outside his house. I squealed and brought them home, knowing they were authentic Grolsch. What's that mean? I originally thought the Grolsch brewery invented the swing top but it seems they just were one of the first to adopt it for widespread use, popularizing it. So as far as most home brewers of just about anything are concerned these are grolsch style bottles and you can find them on amazon with that search term.

It was invented by Charles de Quillfeldt in the US in the late 1800s and soon after was seemingly adopted by Grolsch although I couldn't find a source for that.

So how does one recycle these bottles? I used a strong solution of oxyclean and water to soak off the labels. Done right, they slide off after a half hour of soaking. Then I clean them making sure there's no residue. If there's persistant residue, I add some rice and soap and shake the shit out of it until it's clean. Or I find things to scratch at it with, whatever it takes.

Once they're clean they can be used. I'm keeping the green bottles as home bottles so I filled the rest of them today with some of our favorite flavors. It's a glassblowers delight because I love both the bottle and the color, and a fermenter's delight because they were there in my face and easier to clean that I expected.