Is glass nearing the end of the road? – ESG

Last year, a raft of premium spirits brand owners, including Diageo and Rémy Cointreau, accelerated plans to remove secondary packaging to help meet their sustainability targets. However, the humble glass bottle, the preferred container for all manner of alcoholic drinks since the early 17th Century, is proving harder to dispense with.Solid, robust and, above all, inert, glass was once considered the ideal packaging format, but despite being endlessly recyclable, glass bottles are heavy to transport and use an enormous amount of energy during the production process. At the same time,