Dear Reader,
When choosing packaging for your food or beverage product, know that glass containers provide superior health and environmental benefits that make glass packaging the clear choice. Glass is pure and safe, protecting the taste of your products and providing the sophistication your consumers crave. Glass bottles and jars will not leach chemicals into foods when heated, and are "generally recognized as safe" by the U.S. FDA.
Further, glass containers can be recycled endlessly from bottle-to-bottle. Recycling glass saves energy, reduces use of raw materials, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The glass container industry set an ambitious goal to use 50 percent recycled content in the manufacture of new glass bottles and jars by the end of 2013, which will make glass bottles even more sustainable.
Learn more about the environmental and health benefits of choosing glass for wine, beer, and food products below.
Sincerely,
Lynn Bragg
President, Glass Packaging Institute
Popular South African wine brand Two Oceans is now available in the US. All Two Oceans wines from the 2010 vintage carry the Sustainable Wine South Africa (SWSA) seal, backed by a sophisticated tracking system in which bottle contents can be traced back to source at every stage of the supply chain to confirm the integrity of their production. The top-selling wine is packaged in a 750 mL glass bottle.
