Wine Punts is dedicated to helping the environment by sending fewer wine bottles to landfills and recycling them into drinking glasses. Not only is Wine Punts helping the environment but you as customers are recycling hundreds of bottles each month. Without the valued customers that “drink from the better half,” there would be no recycling at all. Thanks.

Below are some facts about recycling glass:

• Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100–watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
• A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it’s in the landfill.
• Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.
• Most bottles and jars contain at least 25% recycled glass.
• Glass never wears out — it can be recycled forever. We save over a ton of resources for every ton of glass recycled — 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pounds of feldspar.
• States with bottle deposit laws have 35–40% less litter by volume.
• If all the glass bottles and jars collected through recycling in the U.S. in 94 were laid end to end, they’d reach the moon and half way back to earth.
• Each UK family uses an average of 500 glass bottles and jars annually.
• The largest glass furnace produces over 1 million glass bottles and jars per day.
• Nationwide, 38% of all glass bottles were recycled in 2000.