We collect our wine bottle supply through our strategic partnerships with organizations that work in the secondary market. We provide wineries with certification verifying their commitment to sustainability with our certified-circular wine bottle certification.
Using our proprietary system, bottles are sorted, tracked and entered into our inventory database as as it comes into the facilities. We can ensure the highest quality bottle standards by using state of the art, advanced optical imaging, for precise defect detection.
Wineries place wine bottle orders in advance. They let us know the types of bottles required, the quantities needed and an expected delivery date.
When it is time to prepare an order, the bottles are checked for bloom and the labels are removed. They then go through several wash cycles of high pressure washing at high temperatures similar to the procedures used for sterilizing medical equipment. Bottles are now label free, cleaned, hygienic and ready for delivery.
Every bottle saved and reused means one less virgin bottle made. A reused bottle creates 40% less CO2 emissions than a new one. Each reused bottle saves 1.28Kg of CO2 emissions from being produced. That is the equivalent of driving a car 5 KM.
About 35 Billion bottles of wine are sold annually around the globe. Reusing bottles has the potential to save billions of kg of CO2 emissions.
The Last Mile – Sustainability from Vineyard to Bottle
Why Reuse? Making a glass wine bottle is extremely energy intense. It is also 100% reusable. To compare, an average beer bottle is used up to 15 times. It is estimated that reusing a wine bottle would use 5% of the energy it takes to manufacture it. Every ton of virgin glass takes over a ton of raw materials to produce it.
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