{"id":61915,"date":"2019-04-02T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T05:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=61915"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:51:23","slug":"e6pr-eco-six-pack-rings-are-being-adopted-by-craft-breweries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/e6pr-eco-six-pack-rings-are-being-adopted-by-craft-breweries\/","title":{"rendered":"E6PR Eco Six Pack Rings Are Being Adopted By Craft Breweries"},"content":{"rendered":"

They hold beer cans together and don’t contribute to plastic pollution. The E6PR<\/a>, aka Eco Six Pack Ring, could replace the pretzel when it comes to beer pairing, since it’s also edible.<\/p>\n

The manufacturer doesn’t advise that.\u00a0The rings\u00a0don’t taste great and are best disposed of\u00a0in a\u00a0compost pile. But they\u00a0are better than traditional plastic rings\u00a0that can pile\u00a0up in oceans, ensaring\u00a0sea life<\/a>, or turn into microplastics that end up in fish stomachs.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m unaware of any other 100% biodegradable and compostable six pack ring before E6PR,” says\u00a0Ricardo Mul\u00e1s, the company’s chief financial officer.<\/p>\n

E6PR (Eco Six Pack Ring) was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Mexico. The rings have racked up a dozen\u00a0awards since then,\u00a0in categories from\u00a0environmental packaging and design to public relations. This year,\u00a0the rings started holding together cans from Corona in Tulum, Mexico.<\/p>\n

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The company was founded by We Believers, Entelequia and a group of investors in the beverage packaging industry.<\/p>\n

The rings\u00a0were launched in 2018 by Florida’s Saltwater Brewery, which challenged other breweries to adopt them. Since then, craft brewers in\u00a0Australia, South Africa, Poland, Scotland and the Solomon Islands have reportedly signed on. That’s in addition to a handful of U.S. brewers\u00a0in\u00a0Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Washington that use the E6PR.<\/p>\n

“The innovation behind our can ring is the redesign of packaging, manufactured with natural fibers which are biodegradable and compostable,”\u00a0Mul\u00e1s explains,\u00a0“where if discarded properly it will make its way to a compost facility and compost or if incorrectly thrown into the wilderness it will biodegrade.”<\/p>\n

As for replacing the pretzel: “The eco rings are manufactured with natural fibers, so when it comes out of production one can take a bite out of it,” he added. “I have. It has no taste and has no nutritious value.”<\/p>\n

So eating them is not encouraged. Neither is throwing them in the wilderness to feed wildlife.<\/p>\n

“It’s not food,” the CFO says. “Proper disposal should be in the compost or organic bin where it should find its way to a compost facility and compost or if thrown in the trash and ends up in a landfill it should biodegrade.”<\/p>\n

You can expect to see more of the eco rings holding together cans in the U.S. “Many breweries have decided to adopt our rings and have a smaller footprint on our precious planet. We are in contact with several other companies who want to do the same,”\u00a0Mul\u00e1s says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They hold beer cans together and don’t contribute to plastic pollution. The E6PR, aka Eco Six Pack Ring, could replace the pretzel when it comes to beer pairing, since it’s also edible. The manufacturer doesn’t advise that.\u00a0The rings\u00a0don’t taste great and are best disposed of\u00a0in a\u00a0compost pile. But they\u00a0are better than traditional plastic rings\u00a0that can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11270,12239,11323,7105],"supplier":[15166],"class_list":["post-61915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-compostability","tag-naturalfibers","tag-packaging","supplier-corona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61915"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=61915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}