• #62: Special Guest Corrina Pyke: Is Glass the Biggest Sustainability Issue in Wine?

  • Feb 12 2025
  • Length: 27 mins
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#62: Special Guest Corrina Pyke: Is Glass the Biggest Sustainability Issue in Wine?

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  • Is Glass the Biggest Sustainability Issue in Wine? 🍷♻️

    The wine industry has a major sustainability challenge—glass bottles. While they’ve been the standard for centuries, their environmental impact is huge.

    Here are some eye-opening stats:
    📊60% of a wine bottle’s carbon footprint comes from producing and transporting glass.
    ♻️Only 70% of glass is recycled in the UK, with millions of tons still going to landfill.
    🚛Heavier bottles = higher emissions—switching to lighter or alternative packaging can cut transport emissions by10-40%.
    🔄Refillable bottles can be reused up to 30 times, massively reducing waste.

    With growing awareness of sustainability, we need to ask:
    ✅ Areconsumers ready to embrace refillable bottles or alternative packaging?
    ✅ How canproducers and distributors reduce glass waste?
    ✅ Whatgovernment policies or initiatives could support a shift toward sustainable wine solutions?
    ✅ Whatinnovations are on the horizon for wine packaging?


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