11-21-2012, 12:18 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Carey
Add:"Due to pressure from Maui Brewing Company which is 100% Hawaiian (including manufacture of the cans they are sold in)"
I like the sustainability Maui brewery has already done, but they do not produce their packaging in state (even recycled Al is an energy intensive process, something that is not yet feasible here....)
So it seems that the manufacture of the packaging is still not sustainable here, at this time (there were bottlers & ironworks here one hundred years ago, but that was a far different economic time)
Their reasons for using the cans has more to do with breakage, weight reduction - ie shipping - and light. Both glass & cans are recyclable.... IF FOLKS RECYCLE THEM....(sorry, rant from past coastal cleanups...)
link:
http://www.mauibrewingco.com/mbc/MBCSustainability.html
According to the interwebs, the cans that Maui Brewing uses are recycled Hawaiian cans that are melted down and re-made into cans on Oahu. I don't have a way to independently verify that, but it does only take 5% of the energy to recycle cans back into cans than it does to manufacture aluminum cans from bauxite ore.