Comments on: Green Wine? Yes. How? http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/25/green-wine-yes-how/ Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Smith http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/25/green-wine-yes-how/comment-page-1/#comment-7331 Paul Smith Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:28:24 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/?p=688#comment-7331 Ah, nice find Ian. Yes I've heard that too, as Tetrapak is a multilayered affair, making for difficult recyclability. I did however read that Tetrapak has been making substantial investments in increasing the recycling capacity at local centers across the US. And they've been at this in Europe for some time. So it looks like that factor will improve. But, even without it improving, I'd say it doesn't entirely negate it being a lighter footprint product, as its compactness when shipping to the processing plant, lightness as compared to glass bottle when shipped with wine in it will reduce the footprint substantially. Now if they could fix that last part, that would make it a complete home run. If consumers buy it. Ah, nice find Ian. Yes I’ve heard that too, as Tetrapak is a multilayered affair, making for difficult recyclability. I did however read that Tetrapak has been making substantial investments in increasing the recycling capacity at local centers across the US. And they’ve been at this in Europe for some time. So it looks like that factor will improve.

But, even without it improving, I’d say it doesn’t entirely negate it being a lighter footprint product, as its compactness when shipping to the processing plant, lightness as compared to glass bottle when shipped with wine in it will reduce the footprint substantially. Now if they could fix that last part, that would make it a complete home run. If consumers buy it.

]]> By: Ian @ OnEarth http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/25/green-wine-yes-how/comment-page-1/#comment-7325 Ian @ OnEarth Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:12:58 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/?p=688#comment-7325 <a href="http://www.threethieves.com/" rel="nofollow">Three Thieves<a>, out of California, is another winery using tetra paks, for its Bandit line. It's inexpensive and quite tasty -- the absolute best picnic wine I've ever seen. Very popular in New York City at least -- you'd see the telltale purple "juice box" dotting blankets at any NYC summertime outdoor-music event. Now I'm in Asheville, NC, and have been surprised and pleased to find that the local supermarket chain (Ingles) carries Bandit wines. I've read that there are concerns about whether Tetra Paks will ever be recycled effectively -- and without recycling it's not necessarily a lighter-footprint product at all. But it seems to me that Bandit wines would be an absolutely perfect fit for <a href="http://www.terracycle.net/brigades/" rel="nofollow">TerraCycle</a>! Three Thieves, out of California, is another winery using tetra paks, for its Bandit line. It’s inexpensive and quite tasty — the absolute best picnic wine I’ve ever seen. Very popular in New York City at least — you’d see the telltale purple “juice box” dotting blankets at any NYC summertime outdoor-music event. Now I’m in Asheville, NC, and have been surprised and pleased to find that the local supermarket chain (Ingles) carries Bandit wines.

I’ve read that there are concerns about whether Tetra Paks will ever be recycled effectively — and without recycling it’s not necessarily a lighter-footprint product at all. But it seems to me that Bandit wines would be an absolutely perfect fit for TerraCycle!

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