After Utah’s recent “Big Dump”, when 275 cases of bottles and cans were taken from a warehouse in Salt Lake City to Wasatch Resource Recovery and all 275 cases—almost $18,000 worth of now-discontinued beer—were poured out.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the sad situation was necessary, because the beer could no longer be sold after the law change. Instead, its aluminum cans and glass bottles were emptied and recycled. The beer itself went into an aerobic digester, where it will eventually be turned into natural gas or used as fertilizer.
“If you can’t buy it and you can’t drink it, this is the best place for it,” the facility’s sustainability manager Morgan Bowerman told the Tribune.
Via FoodandWine.com
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