I recently wrote about plastic wine bottles, but it seems that wine containers are being invented faster than you can pop a cork!
UK’s Timesonline reports that Rexam, one of the worlds largest can manufacturers sold 6 million cans to the wine industry in 2006 and that last year that number increased to 35 million.
Now that is a lot of cans…
The article pointed out a lot of reasons why cans actually do make more sense than bottles. The single serve size would mean a lot less wine being poured down the drain. Less (or eliminate) broken glass. And apparently, aluminum is 100% recyclable (anyone know what percentage of glass is recyclable?). Aluminum, like the plastic bottles discussed in this space a week ago, also weighs less than glass and as such have a lower carbon footprint.
Would you drink your wine from a can?
Happy aluminum can wine tasting!
WTG
Tags: aluminum wine cans, wine in a can
From 6 o to 35 mil! that is an incredible growth rate!!
I would drink it from a can. I think there is probably a big market in the airline industry, maybe it’s because I have been flying a lot lately. All those little bottles are just being thrown in the trash, it seems. Recyclable and lower weight on the air craft make sense to me.