UK: WRAP study on carbon impact of bottles

摘要

Significant reductions in CO_2 can be made through lightweighting and by increasing the recycled content of bottles. That is the message of the first UK study into the carbon impact of bottling Australian wine in the UK in 75cl glass and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. PET has a slightly lower carbon impact than glass when using the medium estimate for glass production emissions, the study, released in mid March, said. However the higher CO_2 emissions arising for PET excluding or including end of life attributed to the 54g PET bottle lie in the range of emissions attributable to the 365g glass bottle.