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Originally posted by AlexisScarlettSo what do you add to coffee to round out a breakfast menu?Cheers & I'm out!
David R. Pierce
NABC & Bank Street Brewhouse
POB 343
New Albany, IN 47151
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Originally posted by brewbongWhere the heck did this one go?
I realize coffee comes in a can too but maybe this should be moved to Cafe' Bustello's forum.Cheers & I'm out!
David R. Pierce
NABC & Bank Street Brewhouse
POB 343
New Albany, IN 47151
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Here is a snippet from Packaging Digest's recent article on bottles and cans (just clap your hands...clap your hands.)
.........Aluminum beverage cans contain a lining to prevent spoilage and protect beverages from direct contact with the aluminum. A minute amount of BPA is used in these linings; however, the process and conditions of manufacture virtually eliminate the presence of BPA. No BPA has ever been detected in our beverage products in off-the-shelf testing by either the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) or the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Also, independent studies in New Zealand and the United Kingdom have not detected any BPA in soft drinks. Based on the extensive scientific research available, there is no need for concern about the safety of aluminum beverage cans.
GAWD...plastics really are so good and bad all at the same time its midly maddening.
On the sustainability front here is a snippet from Ball Corporations website on cans and sustainability
Aluminum and sustainability facts:
* Aluminum cans are 100 percent recyclable indefinitely which is true closed loop recycling
* 2006 recycling rate for aluminum is 51.6 percent - the highest recycling rate for any beverage container
* Average recycled content of an aluminum can is 41 percent - the highest recycled content of any beverage container.
* Since 1970, the weight of the 12 oz. can and end package has been reduced by approximately 40 percent.
* Cans are the lightest weight beverage container at 34 cans per pound enabling savings in shipping and handling costs for the entire supply chain
* Using recycled aluminum requires 95 percent less energy and generates 95 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than when producing can sheet material from bauxite ore.
* The energy saved in recycling just one aluminum can will power a TV for 3 hours.
* Recycling 40 aluminum beverage cans has the energy-saving equivalent of one gallon of gasoline.
* In 2006, 51.9 billion cans were recycled saving the energy equivalent of over 15 million barrels of crude oil – America’s entire gasoline consumption for one day.
* Aluminum helps to subsidize municipal recycling- the scrap value for the aluminum can (per pound) is higher than anything else in the curbside recycling bin
* It takes as little as 60 days to turn empty cans in the recycling bin into new cans on retailers’ shelves.Last edited by SRB; 04-22-2008, 09:53 PM.
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David- the White Labs bottles do have a cap that says Nalgene, but the bottle I am looking at has a number 1 in the little triangle on the bottom. From what I have read, only bottles with a 3,6,or 7 in the triangle are the ones we shouldn't be using. There is no number on the cap that I can find......Paul Thomas
Brewer
Sockeye Brewing
www.sockeyebrew.com
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Just to clarify: Nalgene is a company, not a material. Nalgene makes scientific/medical/pharmaceutical plastic containers made of many types of plastics. And they just released a press statement to alleviate your concerns:
"ROCHESTER, N.Y. (April 18, 2008) – In response to consumer demand, Nalgene® will phase out production of its Outdoor line of polycarbonate containers that include the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) over the next several months, it announced today. Nalgene’s existing product mix, including the recently launched Everyday line, already features a number of containers made from materials that do not contain BPA."
Everything is toxic to some degree. I guess moderation coupled with awareness is the key. And IMHO "sustainability" is a new happy buzzword without meaning: Unless humans modify their rampant reproductive rates, nothing else really matters. (off the soapbox). Cheers!Phillip Kelm--Palau Brewing Company Manager--
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Originally posted by gitchegumee.........And IMHO "sustainability" is a new happy buzzword without meaning: Unless humans modify their rampant reproductive rates, nothing else really matters. (off the soapbox). Cheers!
Sustainability is a word I have been using often since my ecology classes at Evergreen.
Im not a one issue kind of fella and I feel that even micro examples of sustainable efforts are important.
matt g
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