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Related: About this forumBeer Company Creates Edible Six-Pack Rings to Save Marine Life
May 20, 2016
Beer Company Creates Edible Six-Pack Rings to Save Marine Life
by Brian Clark Howard
Every schoolkid knows that those tough plastic rings that hold six packs together can end up choking birds or sea turtles if they fall into the ocean, as so much of the worlds trash does. Now, one craft beer company has launched a new way to tackle this problem: fully edible, compostable six-pack rings.
Developed by the Delray Beach, Florida-based Saltwater Brewery and the ad agency Webelievers, the new rings are made with byproducts of the beer making process, that instead of killing animals, feeds them, the brewery writes on its website.
The rings are made of organic materials like spent barley and wheat, and are also biodegradable and compostable. The company says they are as tough as traditional plastic rings.
Its a great, innovative product that has drawn a new demographic of people to awareness about the problem of plastics in the ocean, says Nick Mallos, the director of the Ocean Conservancys Trash Free Seas program.
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(160,219 posts)The 3D-printed Edible Six-Pack Ring is the tastiest bit of green tech yet
by James Laird
10 hours ago
A US craft beer brewery is developing edible six-pack rings that feed rather than snare marine life. Suddenly, being an eco-warrior looks pretty damn good.
Florida's Saltwater Brewery has partnered with New York-based ad agency We Believers to create the Edible Six-Pack Ring. Rather than being made from plastic like traditional slosh-up sheaths, the Edible Six-Pack Ring is made from boozy byproducts like wheat and barley.
Designed alongside a team of engineers in Mexico, the 3D-printed edible and 100% biodegradable packaging is thought to be a first in the beer industry. An initial production run saw 500 six-pack rings manufactured, with Saltwater ultimately planning to produce some 400,000 rings every four weeks enough to meet its current monthly output.
We hope to influence the big guys and hopefully inspire them to get on board, commented Saltwater Brewery president Chris Goves.
Saltwater added that it wants investors and larger breweries to get hip to the new green technology and help drive down manufacturing costs, which currently sit at about 10-15 US cents, or about 7-10 pence in UK.
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