I make glass torchwork beads, and the odd thing is, the red glass ISN'T more expensive than other colors. There is a "gold pink" made with gold, and it's very expensive. So there are ways to make red glass cheaply. I don't know why they don't use that for bottles, maybe it's toxic. Watch out for coated glass; lots of decorative objects are clear glass with a red (or other color) paint that fades, scratches, and peels. I can tell the coated stuff by holding it up to the light, the color is richer and more consistent.

you can google Raw Egg Rooting Method. There are believers (me) then there are some naysayers....whatever works for you. I put in a see thru container with LOTS of holes at the bottom...1 to 1 1/2 inch your choice of rooting medium packed in. Then the whole raw egg no cracks in the middle horizontal. Then atleast 3 inches of packed medium again... then the callused over cutting that I dipped in water with Superthrive and then into rooting hormone. Tap off excess and make a tunnel hole with your fingers big enuf for cutting to get into with out scraping off powder. Then atleast 2 more inches of medium over..(mind you the cutting is about 3 inches deep no more, could be less) I put a stake or 2 on the outer rim of pot and securely tie the cutting to it so no movement. Water thru till wet once with water with super thrive and then put where bottom can get heat....DO NOT WATER again till regular size leaves. You can mist a bit if really hot dry temps. Good luck, to each his/her own. ( do not push so hard you break the egg)

The site below should help you out. I googled "old bottles" to find that site. You do realize that no one can help you without a picture, don't you? Here is a link that might be useful: dating old bottles

We have both bottle deposits of five cents plus mandated recycling of newspapers, glass, certain plastics and metals. I deal with the problem using colored garbage cans lined with plastic bags. One brown can for regular garbage gets collected twice a wook. A green box for newspapers and corrugated cardboard, which get collected once every 2 weeks, and one orange can for glass, cans, recyclable plastic that also gets collected every 2 weeks. In addition, my town has spring clean-up pickups and fall leaf pickups, also discarded hristmas trees. the town won't pick up large items like broken TVs and appliances, refrigerators with doors removed, any construction debris, unless I call a number and they send a special truck. Sounds complicated, but that's how we have it.