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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Scrocchiarella South West Food Group

https://swgroup.co.uk

South West Sandwich Company

https://sandwichcompany.co.uk Blackthorn Salt

www.blackthornsalt.co.uk

NFU Mutual

www.nfumutual.co.uk

The Ginger Cat Deli

https://gingercatdeli.co.uk

The Michael Caines Academy in Exeter College

Michael Caines Academy - Exeter College Hale Events

www.hale-events.com

The Bar Teignmouth

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Shandy Shack

www.shandyshack.co.uk

When in Rome Wine

www.wheninromewine.com

Glassworks International

https://glassworksinternational.com

Purbeck Ice Cream

www.purbeckicecream.co.uk

Westpoint

https://westpointexeter.co.uk

Scott's Crispy Onions

www.scottscrispyonions.com

Advanced Disposables

www.advanceddisposables.co.uk

Greg Parsons from Food Drink Devon

https://fooddrinkdevon.co.uk

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Jam then cream, or cream then jam...?

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