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Christmas tree of bottles sparkles in Lithuania

LITHUANIA: Here’s a recycling project just for the holidays: A 4-metre (13.2-feet) tall Christmas tree made of 1,100 empty bottles of champagne and sparkling water.

Lithuanian policeman Dalius Valukonis says he spent three years and hundreds of hours of his free time to create the tree using bottles he got from restaurants, bars, family and friends.