An independent packaging inquiry
Keep the ritual.
Rethink the waste.
WineWaste looks closely at what surrounds the wine: the materials, the performance, the theater, and the choices that quietly become waste.
Begin with The 187 →The premise
Wine culture is not the problem. Waste deserves a closer look.
We follow packaging from the shelf to service to its likely next life. That means asking what a component does, what alternatives exist, and what tradeoffs each choice carries—without pretending every gram is the whole story.
A working cellar of questions
One bottle.
More than one material.
No easy villains
Glass can dominate a bottle’s packaging footprint. A small closure can still be needless. Both things can be true.
Read the research notes →