Carlsberg to use low-carbon glass beer bottles

Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company will use a glass beer bottle on a trial basis that could potentially cut the carbon impact by up to 90 percent.

The bottle manufacturing process uses 100 percent biofuel and increases the recycled content of the bottles to 100 percent without compromising quality.

A million beer bottles have been manufactured by glass bottle supplier Encirc for the Carlsberg Danish Pilsner brand, arguably the world's best beer.

The innovation is part of a series of innovations by the Carlsberg Group \ to reduce the carbon footprint of packaging across its value chain as part of its Together Towards ZERO program.

Carlberg said the material has the potential to transform the highest-carbon impact packaging type to the lowest.

Glass bottles account for around 10 percent of the total beer-in-hand emissions for CMBC.

In 2019, on the UK relaunch of Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, the bottles were redesigned to make them 10 grams lighter, saving over 130 tons of glass in the first year alone.

According to Mark Comline, senior category director for the packaging materials group, they were delighted that a ground-breaking trial has produced ultra-low carbon Carlsberg glass beer bottles.