Our story
It started with a simple question. Why?
- Why are we reusing beer bottles while throwing away 440 million wine bottles a year?
- Why do we melt glass in polluting furnaces?
- Why does hardly anyone know the environmental impact of glass?
Those questions became Rebottled. This is the story.
Started from the bottle
And so it began; a profound fascination with the circular world. It's 2016 when Rebottled is founded by a young entrepreneur at Enactus. His mission has remained the same to this day: to fight the waste problem in a sustainable and social way, starting with the glass industry.
One year later, he found someone crazy enough to join his mission. Together they set up a team of volunteers, friends and professionals and brought the dream to life. It soon became clear: it was not about boundaries, educational background, gender or race. It was about people with a mindset. People trying to leave something behind, so that the world will never be the same again.
Started from the bottle
From student project to circular factory
It's 2016 when Rebottled is founded by a young entrepreneur at Enactus, with a mission that hasn't changed since: fight the waste problem in a sustainable and social way, starting with the glass industry.
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2016
The question is asked
Rebottled is founded at Enactus with one mission: fight waste, starting with glass. A team of volunteers, friends and professionals brings the dream to life.
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2017
The mission finds company
Someone crazy enough to join the mission comes on board. It becomes clear: this isn't about backgrounds or borders, it's about people with a mindset.
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2018
Backed by believers
Stichting DOEN and the Rabo Foundation put their support behind the mission, proof that the idea is bigger than a student project.
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2019
The Rebottled Factory opens
Our own factory opens its doors. From now on, every bottle gets its second life under our own roof.
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2020
Scaling up in Leerdam
An automated production line in Leerdam, the glass capital of the Netherlands, takes production to the next level.
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2021
A second factory in Europe
Demand grows beyond our borders, and so do we: a second European factory joins the mission.
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2022
And then there were three
A third factory in Europe. More bottles saved, more glasses poured.
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2024
One bottle, three products
We stretch every wine bottle further: one bottle now becomes three products, including our candleholder.
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2025
The 100% recycled line
We introduce our 100% recycled line: bottles melted into new raw material, unlocking entirely new shapes.
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2026
Soy candles and new materials
Soy wax dinner candles and new materials join the family. And we're just getting started.
The people
