A lot of people are concerned about our planet after more and more evidence is found supporting globing warming.  But being environmentally friendly can have many other benefits for all and there are many ways to help the planet achieve this balance.  A new one in the states is a bottle washing center being set up near in Napa County.  While washing and reusing bottles is a fairly common practice in Europe, it is rare in America and this is the first large production of it.  The facility is aimed at wine bottles specifically but if they succeed it could expand to other fields.  The founders of this facility started it because they were sad at how disposable everything in American society has become.

                This recycling facility washes and sanitizes bottles for another use; they are just as good as new.  This big save in the wine industry could lead to lower prices for you on your favorite wine.  So if you hear about a wine bottle recycling program near you than maybe it is time to fill your wine bags with your empty bottles, because they must stay intact for reuse, and take them to be recycled.  Of course these programs will grow with participation so make sure you support them.

Recycling Bottles is a post from: Rhino Wino

As wineries take steps to make the growing of grapes and production of wine greener and easier on the environment there are other companies coming along trying to do their part as well. From recycling wine barrels to wine bottles many of the materials in winemaking can be reused.

In Europe a process of sterilizing and reusing wine bottles has been in place quite some time but for some reason the United States has been reluctant to follow. But a company in California is working on reusing wine bottles in order to reduce the carbon footprint that comes with the production of each bottle a winery puts out.

For the green conscious wine enthusiast who always brings their purchases home in wine bags instead of plastic disposables reusing wine bottles is a natural progression. The numbers are actually startling on how much waste is involved with wine bottles. With seventy percent of bottles ending up in the landfill yet sixty percent of the carbon footprint involved in a bottle of wine is the making of the bottle this is a quick way to make wine so much more environmentally friendly. With proper cleaning and sterilization wine bottles can be reused with no problems that will affect the outcome of the wine placed inside later and its taste.

US Company Wants To Reuse Wine Bottles Like Europe is a post from: Rhino Wino

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