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Drink Beer & Help the Environment

January 12, 2019 Comments Off on Drink Beer & Help the Environment

Even if you aren’t a Corona or other beer drinker, this is good news. Six-pack rings have always been a hazard to wildlife, killing and choking them, and drink industries–beer and soft drink–have been slow to adopt the technology that’s been around for years that can solve the problem. That is, biodegradable, non-plastic 6-pack rings.

Kudos to Corona for finally doing that. It’s only a pilot program, but it’s an important start. Read about it at Corona Beer to Ditch Plastic Packaging by Using Biodegradable 6-Pack Rings. Then, contact Corona and congratulate them on their enlightened action. (If you want, lift a beer in a toast to them.) And ask your favorite beer and soft-drink manufacturers why they aren’t doing the same thing.

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6-Pack rings: Don’t Toss ‘Em–Eat ‘Em!

June 10, 2017 Comments Off on 6-Pack rings: Don’t Toss ‘Em–Eat ‘Em!

When we toss out those plastic rings that hold 6-packs together we’re helping kill a million fish, turtles, birds, and small mammals a year.  Most of those holders end up in the ocean, where the creatures get tangled in them.  Conscientious people cut them apart so that doesn’t happen.  But the wildlife eat the pieces.

A small beer company in Florida, Saltwater Brewery, has a solution.  They’ve come up with a biodegradable 6-pack holder that doesn’t harm creatures that eat them (although you don’t really want to eat them, despite how much beer you wash them down with).

Urge all beverage companies to start using them.  To begin, sign the petition to Coca-Cola. And when the new holders finally come out, demand that all companies use them.

 

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