WRAP is encouraging delegates at the London Int Wine & Spirits Fair (LIWSF) to consider the environmental impact of their best-selling reds & whites. WRAP, who are exhibiting at the event, is leading a programme called GlassRite Wine. The project was launched in 2006 to encourage the use of lightweight wine bottles sold through UK off-trade & to encourage more wine importers, brand owners & retailers to bulk import wine & then bottle it in lighter glass bottles made in the UK. By encouraging more widespread use of lightweight bottles, WRAP aims to reduce the amount of UK glass waste by 20,000/tpa by 2008, equivalent to taking over 8,500 cars off the road each year. Delegates at the LIWSF, on 22-24 May 2007 at London's ExCeL, will be able to learn more about the progress of the project at the briefing session "Bottling wine in a changing climate", held at 1pm on 22 May. in the Waterfront Room (W11/1). Visitors to the WRAP stand No F94 will also be able to enter a wine tasting competition to guess which of a selection of wines has been bulk imported and which has been bottled in the country of origin. The UK is the largest importer of wine in the world, with over one billion litres imported each year from Europe and the New World. Around 80% of this wine arrives bottled.
