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When ordering a beer, taste, price and possibly the length of time it takes to pour (standing next to a pretty girl? I'll have a Guinness, thanks ...) are generally the only factors we take into consideration. But what about environmental footprint?
Granted, it's probably not the most pressing question at 11 o'clock on a Friday night, but sipping a brew produced with wind power can be a surprisingly effective ice-breaker. With that in mind, we talked to some experts on green suds.
How to Drink the Environment Clean With Greener Beers
Seeded on Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:08 PM EDT
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According to Jane Zhou of the Worldwatch Institute, the greatest impact beer has on the environment is simply from its packaging, mostly in the form of glass bottles and aluminum cans. Currently, only 6 percent of beer is sold in refillable bottles, which goes some way toward explaining the 1990 study that showed 4 percent of all solid waste in the U.S. -- 7.8 million tons of it! -- was made up of beer and soft drink bottles and cans. So the first, and easiest, step is simply to drink tap beer, rather than bottled. This helps to make you look like less of a yuppie putz as well, so really, it's win-win.
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#1 - Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:10 PM EDTI hate beer on tap! I'm fine with the E-friendly Beer....as long as it does not cost 20 bucks a bottle!
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#2 - Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:32 PM EDTI worked in a major brewery for a few years and I was astounded at how much carbon dioxide was used when bottling . They had a tanker truck come in every day. We know that CO2 is considered a greenhouse gas .I just wonder how much CO2 is released world wide by the beer and soft drink industry and just what effect it has on our global warming.
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