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Wine
Globally, around 17.5 billion bottles of wine are consumed annually, equating to 8.75 billion tonnes of glass - more packaging than any other product in the food or drink sector.
As the world’s largest importer of wine, the UK buys in around 1.2 billion bottles a year, generating CO2 emissions during transportation and contributing more than 630, 000 tonnes of glass to the UK waste stream, around 40% of which is disposed of as household waste.
There are enormous opportunities to reduce this waste and achieve significant cost savings and other commercial benefits through making changes to wine packaging and transportation.
The following pages will help you discover more about those opportunities and how to implement significant change.
Wine ready reckoner
Calculate the cost savings you could access through lighter weight wine bottles and supply chain changes
Also see
- GlassRite Wine newsletter 2010
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Making the case for change
A handy guide on making the most of opportunities for resource efficiency in the packaging and transportation of wine.
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Bottling wine in a changing climate
Significant savings in emissions are possible by changing the way that we import wine.
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The Lifecycle Emissions of Wine Imported to the UK
The impact of packaging and transport on the life cycle emissions of CO2 of imported wine.
- GlassRite Wine project partners
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Presentations from GlassRite Small to Medium Volumes Event held on 11.03.10
Complete presentations from the event.
