How we’ve helped
When glass drink bottles are being moved about, they can sometimes get damaged. One bottle in a case of twelve might get broken by a forklift or a bottle might get separated from a multi-pack. Whatever the cause, lots of perfectly good products can go to waste.
Redistributing these products can be difficult, especially in the beer, wine and spirit category (often known as BWS). So, to help reduce this waste, we invested in a new inline bottle washing plant. It deals with these products in a safe, environmental way, removing any broken glass and washing away sticky residues, so bottles can be safely redistributed.
It replaced laborious manual processes and dramatically increased our capacity. In fact, we sorted and washed more than 3m bottles in 2021, saving a huge number of products and providing a substantial financial return for the businesses we worked with.
