ALPLA PET Wine Bottle

Safe, affordable, and sustainable: the plastic packaging specialist ALPLA is launching arecyclable wine bottle made of PET. The bottle weighs approximately only an eighth ofa glass bottle, reduces the carbon footprint by up to 50 per cent and allows for pricesavings of up to 30 per cent. It can be made entirely of recycled PET (rPET). Thepackaging solution is available now in 0.75-litre and 1-litre bottle sizes and is alreadybeing used in Austria by the pilot customer and development partner Wegenstein. The 0.75-litre bottle weighs just 50 grams – around eight times less than thealternative made of glass.