Behemoth
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WineWolfblass are doing wine in lightweight recyclable plastic wine bottles. Useless for self defence but lighter to transport and can be recycled, tastes Ok, not great but it works.
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boisdevie1
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I get my wine in boxes. I reckon the transport costs must be lower than for bottles becuase they weight a lot less. And the cardboard outer can be burned on the fire or recycled. Can't use the inner foil bag but overall it must be less damaging on the environment given the high energy use in recycling glass.
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Armchair
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Re: Wine | Behemoth wrote: | | Wolfblass are doing wine in lightweight recyclable plastic wine bottles. Useless for self defence but lighter to transport and can be recycled, tastes Ok, not great but it works. |
Surely glass wine bottles from France would be better than plastic ones from Australia? 
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RichardW
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Dont recycle the glass bottle.
If you reuse the glass wine bottle it would be better.
Justme
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Behemoth
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Re: Wine | Armchair wrote: | | Behemoth wrote: | | Wolfblass are doing wine in lightweight recyclable plastic wine bottles. Useless for self defence but lighter to transport and can be recycled, tastes Ok, not great but it works. |
Surely glass wine bottles from France would be better than plastic ones from Australia? |
Surely wine....but it's not.
Persoannly I prefer Spanish and some Italian, not to mention Southern Uplands.
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orangepippin
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I can't cope with the stress of trying to recycle stuff and being environmentally friendly without a glass (yes GLASS) of wine every night. My only other luxury is vast quantities of M&S organic fair trade chocolate so please don't tell me the food miles are a problem on that as well.
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gil
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Re: Wine | Behemoth wrote: | | Armchair wrote: | | Surely glass wine bottles from France would be better than plastic ones from Australia? |
Persoannly I prefer Spanish and some Italian, not to mention Southern Uplands. |
 Why, thank you kindly ... it's bottled in glass bottles from France (same glass manufacturer used by many English winemakers, shipped in by major UK wine bottle supplier)
I agree that it is better to reuse wine bottles than to recycle. I'll be encouraging local (Farmers Market) customers to return the empties to me each month, for a discount on next purchase equal to the cost of the bottle (about 25p trade price).
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oldangrey
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| boisdevie1 wrote: | | I get my wine in boxes. I reckon the transport costs must be lower than for bottles becuase they weight a lot less. And the cardboard outer can be burned on the fire or recycled. Can't use the inner foil bag but overall it must be less damaging on the environment given the high energy use in recycling glass. |
The inner bags can be used.
Half fill them with air ( blow in to it) and hang them on sticks in the veg garden, very good at scaring off birds, cats and others..
If you like camping ? take a couple with you and use as pillows.
Half fill with water ( hold under tap with the valve open ) then freeze, use in cooler box instead of those ones blue ones from Asia.
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