by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jan 12, 2025 | Packaging materials, Reuse
Introduction/Summary of Situation The production of craft beer is waste intensive, with a typical brewery dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of high strength wastewater and tens of thousands of pounds of organic waste, primarily spent grain, annually. Many...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Dec 2, 2023 | Packaging materials, Recycling, Reuse
Planet Earth — Single-use plastic packaging increasingly faces scrutiny for its negative environmental and human health impacts and is the focus of various laws and regulations aimed at banning, reducing, or better recycling it. A wave of bills are currently...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Mar 18, 2023 | Eco beer news, Packaging materials, Sustainable design
The Keg Champion Award will be presented to seven hospitality industry leaders during Earth Week this April PR/Denver, CO – March, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new awards program honoring sustainability-minded hospitality businesses is now accepting...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Dec 3, 2022 | Packaging materials, Recycling
PR / BOSTON, MA (December 2022) – GreenLabs Recycling, a rapidly expanding plastic recycling company serving the brewing and biotech industries in the Greater Boston area has announced their launch of a mail-in program for recycling plastic can carriers from breweries...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Sep 6, 2022 | Climate change, Eco beer news, Eco-friendly consumer, Packaging materials, Sustainable design
PR / Vermont (September, 2022) — Ten months after its initial pilot program in Burlington, the state of Vermont’s can carrier reuse program has officially hit its stride. “I think it’s more of a strut,” kids Ben Kogan, one of the...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jul 26, 2022 | Packaging materials
PR / USA (July 2022) — After years of pandemic-driven take-out orders, many consumers whose drawers are overflowing with plastic straws, disposable plastic cutlery, and single-use plastic packets of ketchup, soy sauce, and mustard are clamoring for less plastic...
