Ngwenya glass is made from recycled glass to give work to the local people and teach them a skill. and at the same time, the people are encouraged to collect the used glass bottles and are paid when they take them to the factory and redeem them. Consequently there is less broken glass litter, so consequently less injuries. In addition, less bushfires started as a result of glass focussing the sunlight onto the dried scrubland.
The art glass generate a lot of revenue from the tourists, yet cost very little in resources, and I believe that glass artists from Scandinavia went out there to help show how to hot work molten glass and give lessons in glass blowing.
So all in all a win win situation. It always sells well, and the animal characters are very well observed...I think.
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