Carmen Wines Go Green with Lighter Wine Bottles

The aboriginal winery from Chile to use lighter bottle wine bottles.

Chile -- There are common apropos for the environment, and anybody is accomplishing their allotment to abatement the carbon footprint, abnormally consumers and industries. Consumers are ambitious beneath packaging and the use of recyclable abstracts in their appurtenances -- and wineries are a absolute archetype of adopting these ecological measures. Carmen is the aboriginal winery in Chile and in South America to chase ecology initiatives which began with the WRAP Wine Institute (Waste and Resources Action Programme) in the UK to actualize lighter bottle wine bottles.

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Carmen -- the exceptional winery from Chile -- has bargain the weight of its Classic bank wines. This action has resulted in ascent down the boilerplate canteen weight from 17.28 ounces to 14.81 ounces, a 15% abridgement that will aftereffect in accumulation of added than 343 bags of bottle per year. By application lighter weight wine bottles Carmen's carbon brand is badly reduced, which in about-face has a absolute ecology aftereffect above the absolute accumulation chain. The abatement in canteen weight lowers the achievement for activity consumption, accomplishment materials, decay administration and aswell facilitates ability handling.

For Carmen, the failing canteen is one added footfall against extensive even greater able appulse on the environment. "The seek has just amorphous to authorize the appropriate weight in all of our wine packaging," commented Juan Pablo Ruiz, Carmen Export Director for the USA market. "According to all-encompassing bazaar research, the lighter wine bottles absorb the capital packaging functionality and do not affect casting integrity, which makes for a acceptable situation. When it comes to ecology apropos and wine packaging, beneath is absolutely more."

Ecological apropos accept led abounding countries, such as Ireland, one of Chile's better wine markets, to accept austere ecology measures to affliction for the planet, including abbreviation packaging and recycling bottle waste. As an example, the UK bazaar -- the world's better wine importer -- consumes about one billion 750ml bottles of wine anniversary year, which in about-face after-effects in about 2.8 actor bags of bottle packaging entering the country's decay beck anniversary year. Glass bottles represent about 40% of all domiciliary acknowledgment packaging, and abbreviation the weight of wine bottles will accept a above appulse on the environment. Decreasing canteen weight in Carmen wines is accepted to aftereffect in accumulation of added than 1,875 bags of CO2 emissions anniversary year - which is almost the agnate of the emissions from 500 cars!

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About Carmen Winery
Carmen--founded in 1850 as the aboriginal Chilean winery--has a history of addition and success. In 1987, the Claro Group acquired the casting to focus in the all-embracing exceptional wine segment. A new winery was complete in 1992 and new vineyards were buried to aftermath the best above wines from Chile and consign them worldwide. Today, with exports of over 500,000 cases to added than 60 countries, Carmen is one of the a lot of important Chilean wineries. Carmen owns 1,626 acreage in the a lot of celebrated Chilean growing areas such as Alto Maipo -- acclaimed for its superb Cabernet Sauvignon -- Casablanca and Limarí.