Colcafé, O-I Partner to Bring Sustainability Message to Life on Instagram
Colcafé is a leading coffee brand in Colombia. It’s been innovating with different in and out promotionals for years. As more and more consumers show they want products that are environmentally friendly, Colcafé and O-I have been working side-by-side to create marketing campaigns that resonate with shoppers and connect to the sustainability of glass packaging. Colcafé’s Popular Glass Jar You could say the Colcafé glass jar is […]
Panel: ‘Short-Sighted’ Recycling Pause Due to Covid-19 Damages U.S. Manufacturing
Recycling is not a luxury. Recycled materials that are gathered by curbside and other municipality-backed recycling programs are used to make vital things, like packaging for groceries and hospital equipment. Covid-19 has impacted recycling programs and practices to the point that manufacturers are having a hard time getting enough recycled materials to create every day supplies, and that includes O-I Glass, the world’s largest manufacturers of glass packaging for food and […]
O-I Melbourne and Two Birds Brewing Create Community, Sustainability Through Glass
As part of a rebranding campaign, Australia’s Two Birds Brewing is telling beer lovers about glass’s earth-friendly benefits. Two Birds Brewing in Spotswood, Victoria, a Melbourne suburb, cares about the environment. Co-founders Jayne Lewis and Danielle Allen love that the results of their hard work are presented to beer lovers in a pure, natural, glass bottle. They also love that […]
Glass is One Way Kererū Brewing Co. Supports a Local, Sustainable Economy
Kererū Brewing Co. in New Zealand has built its brewery on two tenants: support the local economy and support the longevity of the earth. Selling its craft beers in glass bottles made by O-I Glass is one way the brewery makes progress on both of its goals. “My personal feeling about sustainability is that it’s a planet that we’re borrowing, and we really ought better to return […]
Cassels Brewing Builds Community Through Beer and Respect for Nature
Cassels Brewing Co. has a reputation for brewing one of the top stouts in the world. Like many craft breweries, this award-winning brewery takes its role in being a community centerpiece to heart. The Christchurch, New Zealand brewery started in 2009 with a homemade wood-fired brewing system. For the next two years, it grew and generated buzz throughout the beer world. Then the 2011 Christchurch earthquake jolted the city—and the […]
Victoria, Australia Makes Glass Recycling Easier
All recycling programs aren’t built the same, and a new plan adopted in Victoria, Australia, is a big win for glass recycling—and maybe a model for other communities. The Victorian State Government announced an overhaul of its curbside recycling system in Feb. 2020. The state’s new four-bin waste recycling system makes it easier for people to recycle. Families in the state will […]
Northern Virginians Recycle 5 Million Pounds of Clean Glass
Northern Virginians are eagerly embracing a new glass-to-glass recycling program that’s collected nearly 5 million pounds of glass in about six months. In fall 2019, Northern Virginia’s traditional curbside programs stopped collecting glass. Instead, residents could recycle their glass containers at one of the new purple glass-only drop-off bins in the area. The glass from those purple bins is collected, crushed locally, processed at a plant in North Carolina, then sold to companies for […]
Stone & Wood Brewing Co. and O-I Partner to ‘Tighten the Loop’ for Recycled Beer Bottles
Sustainability is part of the ethos at Stone & Wood Brewing Co., an O-I client based in Brisbane, Australia. The craft brewery is deeply engaged in reducing its environmental footprint in every part of the process, from ingredients to beer packaging to waste. The brewery and O-I are working together to reduce waste and make the best […]
O-I Designs Lightest Beer Bottle in the UK for Adnams
When UK brewery Adnams wanted to create a beer bottle that would be better for the earth in 2015, they came to O-I Glass because they knew O-I shared its environmental values. Adnams is a brand built on earth-friendly practices and led the UK beer industry in adopting lighter glass packaging, but they wanted to do more. “Constant environmental improvement is part […]
