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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Winery visit
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:54:51 -0400
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On 3/27/2025 7:53 PM, Ed P wrote:
> On 3/27/2025 5:37 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 
>> Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there to 
>> recycle? In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers 
>> including the bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer 
>> Store to collect the deposits.
>>
>>
>>
> We have no deposits in this state.  we do have recycling pickup and 
> glass goes someplace to be re-processed.  This winery just cleans and 
> uses the bottle as is. Minimal processing.
> 
>  From their website.
> Wine Bottles
> We take 750 ml. wine bottles and 12 oz (355 ml.) beer bottles in all 
> shapes and colors. Please be sure to rinse out your empty wine and beer 
> bottles with clean water before dropping them off to us. This will help 
> remove any leftover wine or beer residue that could attract bugs.
> 
> We do not, however, take other Florida winery wine bottles. We believe 
> their bottles should be returned back to them.
> 
> Did you know that more than 300 million cases of wine are sold in the 
> United States each year? An estimated 70% of these wine bottles end up 
> in our local landfills (per the EPA) and for every ton of glass that we 
> have to replace, 384 lb. of mining waste is created. For every ton of 
> glass that we have to replace, we have to use 1,330 lb. of sand, 433 lb. 
> of soda ash, 433 lb. of limestone, 30 lb. of air pollution and 151 lb. 
> of feldspar.
> 
> Glass wine and beer bottles never wear out and they can be recycled and 
> reused forever. By only using recycled wine and beer bottles, we have 
> reduced our carbon footprint by a whopping 60%!

That's impressive and also a very responsible stance for them to take. 
I particularly like that they will not be re-using bottles from 
different Florida wineries; I presume they will accept bottles from 
wineries in different states since they aren't in direct competition.

Jill