Tag Archives: Recycling
• Good job! Miller-Coors Achieves Landfill-Free Status
MillerCoors recently announced that its Golden Brewery in Colorado, the largest single-site brewery in the United States, is landfill-free. The Golden Brewery will be the fifth MillerCoors brewery to become zero waste, and the achievement is significant, as no other brewery in the country has reached landfill-free status. On average, the Golden Brewery eliminates 135 […]
• Unintended consequences. Counterfeit booze recycled to make electricity
Counterfeit alcohol seized by Trading Standards from across Lincolnshire is being recycled to generate electricity, in a project thought to be the first of its kind in the country. 8 tonnes of illegal alcohol has been seized by Trading Standards since March 2011. The counterfeit booze is being sent to a recycling plant in Sheffield, […]
• New York-based Irish designer turns beer bottles into jeans
An Irish entrepreneur living in New York has carved out a niche in the cut-throat fashion trade – making jeans from recycled beer bottles. Dubliner Peter Heron has launched ‘I Am Not A Virgin,’ his new clothing line made from part-recycled materials. The Journal.ie reports that Heron is utilising recycled brown beer bottles in his […]
• Can I recycle wine bottle closures?
About 55 million cases of bottled wine are sold in California each year. Of those, about 70% are closed with cork stoppers, 16% with metal screw tops and 14% with plastic, according to Amorim, the Portuguese cork supplier that runs the cork-reclamation group ReCork. Most wine stoppers are wrapped in “foil” that covers the top […]
• Danish beer, Tuborg, recalled 500,000 bottles over glass fears
The product is being recalled from shelves due to fears that half a million bottles could contain small pieces of glass. … The fault only affects bottles with best before dates of July 22nd, 23rd and 24th 2011.
• Rutherford Wine Co. Joins 100% Cork Campaign
http://www.boozenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ruth.jpgRutherford Wine Company, a leading purveyor of sustainably grown wines, today became the first winery to endorse a rapidly growing movement to educate wine drinkers about the societal, technical and environmental advantages of real cork wine stoppers, 100% Cork announced. The Napa Valley-based company crafts quality white and red varietal wines under the Rutherford Ranch, […]
