360 : Eco Friendly Vodka

Want to help the environment??? Buy some Vodka!!!




McCormick Distilling (American), just launched their brand new product: 360 Vodka. The company's new division, Earth Friendly Distilling Co., hopes to establish new sustainable product development and packaging standards in the alcohol industry.

Claiming the title ‘World’s first eco-friendly premium spirit’, 360 Vodka is shipped in a bottle made from 85% recycled glass. The whole product incorporates other sustainability “features” like the 360 logo blown directly into the glass, New Leaf 100% PCW paper label, and also using water-based inks vs. petroleum-based inks for label/packaging printing. In addition, the bottle comes with a postage paid envelope hanging around the neck that lets customers mail back the recyclable flip-top closure for re-use, in turn helping lessen landfill waste.

All impurities are removed by distilling the vodka four times using the column distillation process and later it is filtered five times though granulated charcoaled coconut shell filtration system. The state-of-the-art distillery meets or exceeds all EPA air and water quality standards for distilleries. The production process reduced its volatile organic compounds output by 70% and sulfur dioxide emissions by 99% and the company states that it uses 250% less fossil fuel energy during production process. [source: inhabitat.com

Moving the Earth Friendly Way

Earth Friendly Moving provides a great new concept for people who want to move but don't want to find cardboard boxes that they'll just scrap later. the RECOPACK [REcycled ECOlogical PACKing solution] is an earth friendly, reusable, DIY pack and move solution that can save you time and also help the earth. The RecoPacks are stackable moving containers that are made out of 'hard-to-recycle' plastic bottles, like detergent, cleaning products, bleach, etc.



A skid of them (packed on a skid made of recycled materials) are delivered to your house(in a truck that runs off of veggie oil and bio fuel), you just pack them, ship them to the new destination, unpack then reload on the skid and its taken away to be used again. They cost about $0.15 per day per container and come in 5 different sizes. There is also the option to buy the containers, if you plan to use them for other things in the future and don't want to rent.

They also supply a packing padding called RecoCube, which is made from recycled paper sludge and it totally biodegradable (unlike its Styrofoam predecessors).


Right now they're only located in California, but the company plans to be across America in the next few years.

See more of their story and products on their website: earthfriendlymoving.com