How Saltwater Brewery's Edible Beer Packaging will reduce Plastic in the Sea

“The creative solution we bring forward has the potential to influence how we do sustainable packaging with zero waste and no impact on wildlife”

Marco Vega, co-founder of We Believers commenting on Saltwater Brewery's biodegradable plastic rings

Another company finally joins the anti-plastic bandwagon.

Saltwater Brewery has developed an environmentally friendly replacement for those plastic rings used to hold six-pack cans of beer as reported in the article “Saltwater Brewery’s new six-pack rings are compostible, biodegradable, and totally edible”, published May 18, 2016 By Chloe Olewitz, DigitalTrends.

The replacement rings are the result of partnership with an ad agency called We Believers and is made of wheat and barley. Not only biodegradable, but they are edible to marine life and even humans as noted in the article “These biodegradable six-pack rings double as fish food”, published May 19, 2016 By Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge. 

The video below explains it all.

The idea is that it would prevent birds and marine life from choking to death on plastic rings from beer cans.

This is very similar to Wisynco Jamaica's plans to stop using Styrofoam and instead make biodegradable plastic containers instead as noted in my blog article entitled “Why Wisynco making coloured Biodegradable Styrofoam heralds Beeswax Cardboard Packaging”. 

Hopefully, local breweries in Jamaica like Red Stripe Will begin to do likewise and support this tasty alternative form of packaging. Especially as they are now using Cassava to replace wheat and hops as noted in my blog article entitled “Red Stripe's US$800,000 Cassava Processing Plant - How Hops from Wheat and Barley is replaced by Cassava Starch”.

It might make your Red Stripe Beer more expensive, but at least the packaging would be edible!