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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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For Beer Drinkers on St. Pat’s Day

March 17, 2018 Comments Off on For Beer Drinkers on St. Pat’s Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!   You may be one of the many people who celebrate with a glass of green beer.  If that’s you, let the Earth celebrate too–drink organic beer. 

                       

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For Fun–St. Pat’s Day Trivia

March 16, 2018 Comments Off on For Fun–St. Pat’s Day Trivia

Tomorrow everyone is Irish.  We joke, party, and parade in celebration of the Irish (born in England, by the way) St. Patrick.  We turn waterways green and drink green beer.  We wear green and cook special meals.  Did you know that 650,000 American babies have been named Patrick in the last century?  Or that 40 pounds of green dye go into the Chicago River on this day (even more this year)?

Discover more bits of St. Pat trivia at St. Patrick’s Day by the Numbers.

Top o’ the day, to ye.  Have a grand time tomorrow.

(From a Kelly who married an O’Donnell.)

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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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