Re: Winery visit

On 3/27/2025 7:53 PM, Ed P wrote:

On 3/27/2025 5:37 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
 

Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there to recycle? In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers including the bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer Store to collect the deposits.
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We have no deposits in this state.  we do have recycling pickup and glass goes someplace to be re-processed.  This winery just cleans and uses the bottle as is. Minimal processing.
  From their website.
Wine Bottles
We take 750 ml. wine bottles and 12 oz (355 ml.) beer bottles in all shapes and colors. Please be sure to rinse out your empty wine and beer bottles with clean water before dropping them off to us. This will help remove any leftover wine or beer residue that could attract bugs.
 We do not, however, take other Florida winery wine bottles. We believe their bottles should be returned back to them.
 Did you know that more than 300 million cases of wine are sold in the United States each year? An estimated 70% of these wine bottles end up in our local landfills (per the EPA) and for every ton of glass that we have to replace, 384 lb. of mining waste is created. For every ton of glass that we have to replace, we have to use 1,330 lb. of sand, 433 lb. of soda ash, 433 lb. of limestone, 30 lb. of air pollution and 151 lb. of feldspar.
 Glass wine and beer bottles never wear out and they can be recycled and reused forever. By only using recycled wine and beer bottles, we have reduced our carbon footprint by a whopping 60%!

That's impressive and also a very responsible stance for them to take. I particularly like that they will not be re-using bottles from different Florida wineries; I presume they will accept bottles from wineries in different states since they aren't in direct competition.
Jill