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KMPO: Boxed Wine Helps Enviroment?

So I just got on John (Tesh's) website and found this interesting factoid, and just in time for your holiday consumption too: "These days a lot of respected wineries are doing away with the glass bottle because manufacturing and shipping them is expensive and wasteful. According to the Wine Group, the largest wine company in the world, using boxes instead of glass bottles is equivalent to taking 25,000 cars off the road every year!" So thank you Mr. Tesh. I can overlook your smarminess for one day to pass that on. Now go out and get yourself some boxed wine (or boxed sparkling cider for you non-drinkers)/Staci Lehman, Kootenai MPO. More here.

Question: How often do you drink boxed wine? If you don't already drink boxed wine, would you drink it, if you knew that such consumption helped the environment?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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