How to recycle glass beer bottles
Domestic breweries generally adopt the mortgage system and fixed-point recycling methods to recycle beer bottles. The deposit system is a method that consumers have to pay a certain amount of cash every time they buy a bottle of wine, and then return the cash when the bottle is returned. Fixed-point recycling is a method for the brewery to set up a special person to carry out regular and fixed-point recycling of wine bottles to retailers who sell beer from the factory, to ensure that the special bottle factory is dedicated to avoiding mixed collection with glass bottles from other manufacturers, and try to control the stability of the number of glass bottles in the recycler's factory. , Unified quality and performance. The former way is to encourage consumers to return beer bottles, and the latter way is to ensure that beer companies can recycle their bottles on time and in volume. This method has been in operation abroad for many years, and has obvious effects in ensuring bottle recycling.
Firstly, after the consumer consumes beer, the bottle is manually taken to the point of sale to exchange for beer (or cash). Part of it is recycled to the waste station by waste recycling personnel, and it needs to be stored at this time, which will incur transportation and storage costs. Afterwards, at the point of consumption, the beer company will transport the wine bottles at the point of sale to the winery at fixed times. Recycled products are transported from the waste station to the winery. In this step, the recycling individual or enterprise bears the logistics costs and losses that occur during the logistics process. At the same time, pay attention to explosion-proof bottles during transportation, which can be sealed with plastic trays. According to the distance of the collection point and traffic conditions, the logistics and transportation costs incurred will also vary. When the wine bottle is shipped back to the brewery, the beer bottle will be inspected to see if it is qualified, and the qualified beer bottle will continue to be cleaned and disinfected through the production line and refilled before entering the consumer market. Unqualified glass will be shipped to the glass factory for melting and remanufacturing.
Similarities and differences between the two and solutions
General waste recycling is not like glass beer bottles, and there is no need to use plastic pallets to prevent explosions during transportation. There are also no special storage requirements for storage, so shipping and storage costs are generally lower. In addition, the quality of beer bottles needs to be inspected and cleaned and disinfected when refilling, and general waste products do not need to be inspected. Therefore, cause the beer bottle recycling cost to remain high. The following measures can be taken to reduce recycling costs:
1. Control, unify and divide the quality of wine bottles, and formulate quality standards for wine bottles
2. Unify the bottle specifications to facilitate recycling
3. Improve the detection level of recycled wine bottles, automatic detection replaces manual detection
4. Delivery and recycling of bottled beer at designated locations
5. Establish a mandatory recycling period, and bottles exceeding the deadline shall not be recycled for refilling beer
6. Different breweries collect special bottles, and recycle the factory's wine bottles within the fixed-point turnover period
The purpose of reverse logistics of beer bottle recycling and reuse is to reduce waste of resources and reduce production costs of enterprises. In practice, recycling requires effective planning and control of operations and storage. This can further reduce losses and costs, and drive the development of the beer bottle recycling industry, because as far as the current market is concerned, beer bottle recycling is still an industry with small profits, and the main reason is the high recycling cost caused by high recycling requirements. Many beer companies admit frankly that the cost of recycling a beer bottle is sometimes higher than the cost of buying a new bottle, which makes many companies unwilling to recycle bottles, causing a lot of pollution and waste. For this reason, effectively reducing recycling costs is the key to recycling wine bottles. With the rapid development of the reverse logistics industry, third-party reverse logistics has become an inevitable trend in the development of enterprise reverse logistics. However, at present, it is still difficult to find a third-party logistics company that meets the requirements in China to undertake this business. The international logistics giants that have entered China, such as UPS and FedEx, have yet to expand their service areas, especially for reverse logistics. The network system laid by management is not fully in place. Therefore, it will take time for third-party logistics companies to enter the beer bottle recycling industry, but in time, the domestic beer bottle recycling industry will surely enter the right track and bring a lot of economic benefits to enterprises.