Conscious Container Awarded Landmark CalRecycle GHG Reuse Grant Program

On April 15th, 2021 CONSCIOUS CONTAINER was honored to be awarded a landmark $500,000 Green House Gas (GHG) Reuse Grant by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). This "Reuse" Grant is the first of its kind within the California GHG Grant program, further validating the desire, investment and commitment to true waste reduction systems across the State of California.

This GHG Reuse Grant will be supplementing the launch and expansion of Conscious Container's refillable wine bottle marketplace system in the San Francisco North Bay Region. At its core, Conscious Container sells, collects, washes and resells refillable glass bottles for beverage producers across the beer, wine and alcoholic categories. The first phase in the refillable wine category focuses on tasting room bottle and a wine club e-commerce returnable tote and bottle collection, wash, and resell.

The GHG Reuse Grant period runs from March 2021 through April 2023. During this time Conscious Container will be reporting our progress to the CalRecycle GHG Reuse Grant team, in particular reporting on the GHG emissions our refillable wine bottle operations is driving. We will also be sharing progress through our social media platforms. A refillable glass bottle has a 95% lower carbon footprint compared to a single-use glass bottle.

This entire Conscious Container refillable bottle business is about shifting the narrative on waste. Moving single-use packaging waste into a refillable packaging asset. These returnable/refillable systems exist all around the world and we have to invest in brining this regenerative system back into our US infrastructure and economy.  Here we go....