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Large-scale demonstration of the viability and opportunities available to the wine industry via bulk importation, lightweighting and glass colour choice.
Demonstrating Glass Lightweighting

 A database that gives you an indication of the lightest, middle and heaviest weight packaging used for food and drinks products found on the UK supermarket shelf.

This online guidance provides ideas, tips and practical tools to help you change the way packaging is produced and used. It also raises the new issue of food that households throw away.

There are two very valuable specifications applicable to glass in manufacturing, sports, and water filtration applications.

Demonstrating the case for specifying a minimum recycled content in glass packaging.

The new Market Knowledge programme in WRAP has the central aim of improving market knowledge and transparency within the recycling and re-processing sector.  The Glass Market Situation Reports provides in-depth information on the latest economic trends and developments.

The WSTA is the only UK organisation representing the whole of the wine and spirit supply chain including producers, importers, wholesalers, bottlers, warehouse keepers, logistics specialists, brand owners, licensed retailers and consultants.

The Wine Federation of Australia, New Zealand Winegrowers, the Wine Institute of California and the Integrated Production of Wine Program in South Africa have funded a project to develop a carbon footprint calculator for wine.

The tool is being developed by Australian industry consultant Provisor and the Yalumba Wine Company and is designed to allow wineries to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and compare them with global standards.

The calculator determines such variables as fuel use, refrigeration and fermentation emissions, carbon dioxide used in processing, nitrogenous fertiliser usage and carbon absorption by vines.  Waste treatment, packaging, freight and employee travel are also taken into account. Wineries enter their production levels into a spreadsheet which calculates emission levels against the standard for each item.

The web-based Greenhouse Gas Calculator is being developed by Australian industry consultant Provisor and the Yalumba Wine Company and is designed to allow wineries to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and compare them with global standards.

The test calculator is available online now, and the final tool will be ready within 12 months according to Amy Russell, Natural Resource Management Coordinator with the Winemakers Federation of Australia. Producers will be able to use the results to help reduce carbon emissions.

Greenhouse Gas Calculator

For more information on the carbon footprint of UK wine see: The alcohol we drink and its contribution to the UK’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PAS 2050. This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) has been prepared by BSI to specify requirements for measuring embodied greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in products and

services. The development of this PAS was co-sponsored by the Carbon Trust and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Energy use in the glass container industry. Source Carbon Trust 2008.

World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (2004). The Greenhouse Gas Protocol - A corporate reporting and accounting standard (revise edition)