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The Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWRT), founded in 2021, organised an online meeting on the topic of "pact for packaging" at the end of February. Responsible persons from the international wine and food trade as well as companies from the glass and packaging industry were involved. Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences is currently the only university involved.
The aim of the Sustainable Wine Roundtable is to meet the growing challenges for sustainability. The biggest problem point of the CO2 footprint of wine is the packaging and especially the glass bottle, according to the SWRT. The members have therefore set themselves concrete goals:
The following SWRT members want to implement this strategy: Systembolaget (alcoholic beverage monopoly, Sweden), Alko Oy (state exclusive alcoholic beverage licence, Finland), Lidl GB (discount grocer, UK), Whole Foods Market (US organic supermarket chain with over 500 shops), The Wine Society (170,000 members, UK), Ahold Delhaize (one of the world's largest grocery retailers, about 375,000 employees, Netherlands), Waitrose & Partners (supermarket chain with 352 branches in the UK).
Prof. Hans Reiner Schultz, Rector of the Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences, said after the meeting that such a discussion was also urgently needed in German viticulture.
(ru / Source: Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences; Photo: 123rf.com)