Innovation Award for Reuse Design
August 18, 2008 | Levent OZLER
If all soft drinks were packaged in reusable containers, in one year we could prevent 1.1 million tons of CO2 emissions from entering the environment.
These figures are calculations put forward by the German Packaging Institute in Berlin.
Mr Clemens Stroetman, administrator for Initiative Mehrweg (SIM), quoted from Poet Ludwig Uhland's ballad, "Glass is the Earth's Pride and Fortune," as he awarded the 2008 innovative prize for reuse product design.
The prize went to the Schloer Bodensee Fruchtsaft AG.
The company had developed an aesthetically pleasing but practical glass bottle, lighter in weight and more compact.
The award's sponsor German Association to Help the Environment and SIM, hope the hotel and restaurant industry will embrace the use of reuseable container designs.
The bottle from Lake Constance is one example - from millions of other glass bottles - of German regional and worldwide renewable resources for the beverage industry.
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