BAJAN SUN MAGAZINE
DEC 2014
RUM SHOP
TALK
Recycling Rum Bottles
required to melt the glass, make
new bottles and then distribute the
remade glass back to the bottler.
In the not-to-distant past, CocaCola reused almost all of their
bottles on the local level. Now you
can hardly buy a Coke in a glass
bottle. A growing number of US
states and here in Barbados charge
a deposit on beverage containers so
why not save more energy and reuse the glass. I know that as
consumers we don't go through as
many rum bottles as commercial
enterprises, while our popular Bars
& Rum Shops see hundreds
disposed of per week.
I
n the islands it is a common practice to recycle beer
bottles by returning them to the distributors where
they are washed and re-used. Rum bottles however are
thrown in the garbage. I recently had a discussion with a
relatively small vodka producer in the US and suggested
that if he would offer his customers the opportunity to
recycle their bottles they would jump at the chance,
especially in places like San Francisco where people are
some of the most environmentally conscious in the
country.
As consumers would you endorse a
company that was trying to do the right thing in regards
to the environment?
Would you consider this, does this make sense to you?
If given the opportunity to recycle your empty rum
bottles would you endorse the practice. By recycle I
don't mean melting them down to make more glass but
rather reusing them without wasting most of the energy
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