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» Beverage Industry News » UK Beer Bottles go ‘Light’

UK Beer Bottles go ‘Light’

Beverage Industry News» Beverage Industry Newsposted Jan 24th, 2008 12:00:00AM by Pat Hagerman

Brands including Miller Genuine Draft, Strongbow and Black Sheep have joined forces with the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP) GlassRite initiative to cut the weight of their bottles, in a move designed to reduce energy use, waste, cost and supply-chain related carbon emissions.

New figures released last week by WRAP claimed that the five brewers – SABMiller, Scottish & Newcastle, Marstons, Wells & Young and Frederic Robinson – would save 3,800 tons of glass and 2,515 tons of CO2 a year as a result of the scheme.

A spokesman for WRAP said that the new bottles, which include Black Sheep brewery bottles that are 24 per cent lighter and 21 per cent lighter bottles of Cobra beer, are “going on the shelf at the moment”.

He added that the GlassRite initiative was on track to meet its target of taking 60,000 tons of glass out of the waste stream by the end of 2008 through its work with brewers, wine companies and supermarkets.

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Pat Hagerman is co-founder of ProBrewer.com. When he's not leading operations for ProBrewer you can find Pat working on Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and systems. If you're having a beer with him ask about some of the more original skills he's taught Alexa.

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