CITY OF RENO. Glass can have a very long lifespan if it avoids the recycling process after just one use. That’s the mission in mind for the Truckee, CA based glass reuse company, Conscious Container. In their partnership with Beyern Brewing in Missoula, MT, they have recently begun a pilot program in Northern Nevada that invites… Read More
Brewers Association Forum: Online Discussion Board February 26, 2018 Description: Our panel of craft brewers, returnable bottle innovators, and glass industry experts will take you through inspiring updates, data and the leadership craft brewing is taking in building this Returnable Bottle Market! So what’s up with returnable glass bottles and craft brewing? Here’s what’s up…… Read More
‘Beers 4 Bottles’ Event Encourages People to Recycle Glass Bottles Posted: Feb 23, 2018 10:15 AM PSTUpdated: Feb 23, 2018 10:36 AM PST By Jaimie Hays Great Basin Brewing is teaming up with a non-profit aimed to get residents to recycle and reuse their glass bottles. Conscious Container is a refillable – returnable glass bottle start-up partnering with… Read More
KOLO 8 Television station Rebecca Kitchen came out to Great Basin Brewery Taps & Tanks to dive deeper into this local story about glass bottle reuse. Rebecca interviewed Conscious Container Founder Caren McNamara and Great Basin Brewery owner and head brewmaster Tom Young about this incentive based glass bottle collection pilot and Beers 4 Bottles… Read More
The goal behind Conscious Container is to reduce the number of glass containers that end up in landfills each year. Instead, the bottles would be washed, sterilized, and sold back to places like Great Basin Brewery at a discounted price. Instead of around $0.15 a bottle, breweries would spend between $0.05 to $0.07 a bottle.… Read More
KOLO 8 covered our Beers 4 Bottles event! Read More
Newsreview.com covered us for their the re-fillable glass bottle trend article. Read More
How many empty beer bottles do you recycle a week? Imagine the impact to the environment if every beer bottle in every household was reused. Caren McNamara is on a mission to make that happen. While doing so, she hopes to make a difference not only in our community, but in California, Northern Nevada and… Read More
How Bottle Sharing Programs Help Boost Sustainability With key points like diverting glass from from landfills, helping to eliminate the energy to manufacture new bottles and lessening the demands for mining silica and sodium to make new bottles, Nevada’s Great Basin Brewing is looking for a new way to be more green. Working with Conscious Container, Great… Read More
Conscious Container is launching our reuse collection pilot program this weekend at two locations: Saturday April 22: Tahoe Truckee Earth Day at Squaw Valley 11am – 5pm (Booth 4) Sunday April 23: Reno Earth Day at Idlewild Park 10am – 6pm (Booth 54) Come on over and visit our booth to learn more… Read More