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Paper Wine Bottle to Debut in the U.K.

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The wine industry has toyed with many approaches to make their product’s packaging more eco-friendly – replacing natural corks with plastic alternatives to save trees, using wine boxes to cut down on transportation pollution and washing and refilling glass wine bottles.

Now British company GreenBottle has developed a paper wine bottle, which it says shrinks the bottle’s carbon footprint and is compostable at the end of its useful life, The Guardian reported.

While a typical glass wine bottle weighs about 1 pound, GreenBottle’s paper bottle weighs less than 2 ounces, so shipping this lightweight product will produce fewer carbon emissions than transporting … read more