PET or glass bottle, aluminium can, beverage carton or maybe even a paper bottle, single use or multiple use - there is a huge range of choices for packaging beverages. But which is the most sustainable? The focus has increasingly been placed on ecological aspects over the last few years in this sector. And not only for packaging material: these aspects have also become important for filling and actual packaging processes. Some beverages simply come with classic packaging. Beer or wine is purchased in a glass bottle, milk in a carton and soft drinks in a PET bottle. Over the last few years, however, customers have become ever more critical, and sustaina-bility issues have grown in importance for the beverages sector. Plastics especially now have a bad reputation, which is often undeserved. How well a type of packaging fares when looking at the ecological balance depends on many different factors.
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