Some British wines will be packaged in plastic

British supermarket giant Sainsbury will begin to change shelves on plastic packaging wines. The New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc worth 4.99 pounds and the Australian rose wine worth 3.99 pounds will take the lead in adopting this recyclable lightweight material (the material is PET. Glycol ester, or PET, packaging. If the trial is successful, the UK government-supported Waste and Resources Action Plan (WRAP) will promote the use of other wines.

After the introduction of PET packaging by Wolf Bass, Australia’s largest wine exporter, the British government had this idea. Wolf Bass' plastic bottled wine last year was in Canada. A few weeks later, WolfBass's £7.49 green label Chardonnay (Green Labelchardonnay) and Cabernet Saila will be available in the UK.

The traditional glass bottle weighs about 400 grams, while the PET package weighs 54 grams, only 1/8 of the weight of the glass bottle. Sainsbury said that there are many advantages to replacing glass with plastic. 'New plastic bottled wine and glass bottled wine look the same and equal in volume without affecting the taste of the wine. Consumers are not only lighter, but they are also much more convenient for picnics and barbecues in the summer. '

In the United Kingdom, about 1 billion bottles of wine are consumed annually, and about 500,000 tons of glass bottles are used. According to WRAP, using the lightest material packaging to replace glass bottles can reduce carbon emissions by about 90,000 tons.

Expensive wines may not use plastic packaging, but wine experts believe that mid- and low-end wines will increasingly use plastics for wine. As cheap wines have been used in plastic packaging, consumers may have inertial thinking that plastic-wrapped wines are inferior. However, manufacturers are convinced that consumers will overcome the resistance to plastic bottles, just as they have understood that screw caps and plastic plugs are the same as cork stoppers.