Carlsberg will soon put its beer into 100% biodegradable bottles

Carlsberg will soon put its beer into 100% biodegradable bottles


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Having worked on this project for 3 years, the Danish beer brand, Carlsberg recently presented its future bottles and capsules. Made from sustainable wood fibres, the Green Fiber Bottles should be 100% biodegradable.

Presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, the Green Fiber Bottle should be the next packaging for bottled beer from the Danish brewer, Carlsberg. Made not of glass, but of wood, this bottle will be 100% biodegradable, from the bottle to the capsule. As whilst glass bottles can already be recycled, beer capsules are excluded from the classical sorting circuit and end up in household waste bins, when they are not recovered by associations. In fact, capsules are not recycled due to the low quantity of metallic material which makes them uneconomic for recycling by sorting.

Thus, Kronenbourg's subsidiary will soon adopt the Green Fiber Bottle, developed with the ecoXpac company, the Danish Fund for innovation and the Technical University of Denmark. In a press release, the brand states that "All materials used in the bottle, including the cap, will be developed using bio-based and biodegradable materials – primarily, sustainably sourced wood-fibers – allowing the bottle to be responsibly degraded".



Still at the project stage, the company hopes to apply this new packaging in the next few years, thus marking a turning point in its zero waste policy. Similarly, it is possible that this initiative will be extended to all the products of the Kronenbourg group.

* Image from the Carlsberg group site : http://www.carlsberggroup.com/

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