Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jill McQuown Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Winery visit Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:54:51 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:54:51 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="17adb7088f8c9f514c6963d5d34f1932"; logging-data="3195646"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ILDm7fGn91uK+9zo7UQ3wXUfOQqbyzlg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:eNZL5Qi+fYexlhkIG/rsRwwMZvY= In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250328-2, 3/28/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US 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