Red, White, and Green Wine?

Now I am by no means a “wine expert” or “wine connoisseur” but I do enjoy a nice glass of red every now and then. You may or may not have noticed the growing about of organic or eco-friendly wines creeping into the stores. These can range anywhere from companies just using organic grapes in their wines or all the way to recycled bottles and using renewable energy for production. In a previous post we talked about Tetra Pak and French Rabbit wine:

The main objective of Tetra Pak cartons is source reduction. They use minimal material and energy to produce and distribute, resulting in minimal waste and fuel emissions through their life cycle. In comparison to glass bottled wine, Tetra Pak wine reduces packaging by 90 percent. So what are Tetra Pak cartons made of? They are composed of 75 percent paperboard that gives the required strength, 20 percent food grade LDPE polyethylene that creates a tight bacteria free seal, and 5 percent aluminum that keeps out air, light, and odor. Not bad but now you may be asking about the paperboard, where does it come from ?

Tetra pak as a company has full disclosure with regards to their forestry guideline and brochure. Tetra Pak receives their paperboard from an outside supplier, but stresses working with suppliers to create a plan of traceability and forest management. Tetra’s ultimate goal is that all their wood fiber in the liquid packaging board come from forests independently certified and managed in accordance with the principles of sustainable forest management. You can click here and here for Tetra Pak’s forestry guideline and brochure to learn more.

Also, here’s some more quick environmental facts/benefits to using Tera Pak wine:

• Tetra is working with WWF’s Climate Savers Program to reduce total CO2 emissions during the production of cartons by 10 percent in absolute terms by 2010 vs 2005 levels
• Over 70 percent of the energy used by their suppliers to make paper comes from biomass
• If all of Canada’s annual 283 million litres of table wine were packed in cartons instead of bottles, the amount of greenhouse gases saved would equal taking 43,000 cars off the road

So there you have it, if your going out and buying wine this weekend spend the extra $2.00 and get the eco-friendly Tetra Pak bottle.

::Tetra Pak

Today I was over at Planet Green and they have also put together a great outline on what to consider when you are shopping for an organic or “green” wine. Hitting on points of how to read and organic label, understanding sustainable wine making, and finding vegan wine they have put together a concise and well thought guide to help you out. So click here to learn more about the developing wine sector and make sure to consider this informative article when making your next wine decision.

Keep it Green,

Paul

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One Response to “Red, White, and Green Wine?”

1. esther says:

   October 2, 2008 at 9:39 am

   I might be wrong here, but glass can be recycled over and over again, and a tetrapack, can only be recycled once , into paper tissues….isn’t glass better then?

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