How will champagne companies cut down their carbon footprints?
"We're slimming the shoulders to make the champagne bottle lighter, so our carbon footprint will be reduced to help keep Champagne here for future generations," said Thierry Gasco, the "master vintner" at Pommery.
In the near future all champagne houses will use new eight hundred and thirty five gram bottles. Each new bottle saves the champagne house two cents. According to Tyler Colman, an author of the wine industry and environmental studies, "For champagne producers to reduce the wight of their packaging is definitely a step in the right direction". The direct effect of the bottling change is equal to taking four thousand small automobiles off the road, trimming eight thousand metric tons of carbon exhaust every year!
Expect to see the new bottles in liquor stores and restaurants in three years.
Toast to going green!
Cheers!
Alderman, Liz. The New York Times, "A Greener Champagne Bottle". 01 September 2010.
Well first of all I love champagne. I wouuld have never thought of champagne producers going green. But that is a wonderful thing, if changinging the way we bottle champagne contributes to a safe environment. I toast to that too.
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