LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After enjoying your Maker’s Mark bourbon, the company says do not throw away the bottles, instead, turn them into something new.
The company has launched a pilot initiative called, “Glass to Garden.”
During Maker’s Mark tasting events at select Kroger and Liquor Barn locations this fall, you can bring empty glass bottles of any kind to see them be crushed into what’s known as recovered crushed glass.
The material is finer and safer than sand.
It will then be donated to Louisville Grows and Lexington’s Seedleaf – two organizations that run urban community gardens.
“We’ve been using the glass crushers at our distillery in Loretto for more than a year now,” said Kim Harmon, Director of Safety and Sustainability at Maker’s Mark Distillery. “Now we’re excited to expand this best practice into the community to broaden the environmental benefit and help educate the public on glass recycling and upcycling.”
Maker’s Mark said by pulverizing the glass, it lessens the carbon footprint of transporting unpulverized glass to a recycler or pulverizer.
For those interested in taking their empty Maker’s Mark bottles to be pulverized, the pulverizers will be available at the following locations through Nov. 19:
Kroger Wine and Spirits
(Oct. 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17 – from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.)
Prospect – 5929 Timber Ridge Drive
Middletown – 12501 Shelbyville Road
McMahan Plaza – 3909 Breckenridge Lane
Valley Station – 10645 Dixie Highway
Shelbyville – 311 Boone Station Road
Liquor Barn
(Oct. 22, 29; Nov. 5, 12, 19 – from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Middletown – 13401 Shelbyville Road
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