Our inaugural Sustainability Forum in June considered the prospects of a carbon-free glass industry. Barbara Drew MW examines the arguments and debates how much still needs to be done.
After a lively panel discussion spanning Bordeaux to the Barossa valley, digging into sustainable ways of working in the vineyard, you’d be forgiven for thinking a debate around the future of glass would be a little less engaging.
Yet, as it turned out, the question of how to create zero-carbon packaging for wine was one that engaged the room, just as it is currently enveloping the wider wine and spirits industry.
Our inaugural Sustainability Forum in June covered a range of topics. Producers from around the world were in attendance to debate, discuss and learn. And we were keen to cover as broad a range of themes within the wine industry as possible.
That meant discussing glass, the most widely used packaging material for wine. It’s also one that currently contributes approximately 40% of our total carbon footprint at Berry Bros. & Rudd.
Our experts on this topic ̶ Dave Dalton, CEO of British Glass and Richard Katz, CEO and founder of Glass Futures ̶ were passionate advocates for the glass industry. Yet, this was no one-sided talk.
Both Dalton and Katz were optimistic about the future for glass in the wine industry. However, both agreed that there is a lot of progress to be made. Katz, for example, acknowledged that the glass-making process produces a lot of carbon
This Article was originally published on Barry's Wine Blog
