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Massachusetts – An initiative aimed at decreasing the millions of plastic can carriers that end up going to landfill or incineration each year in Massachusetts reached its first milestone last week with the successful completion of a Metro Boston pilot program. Since launching in early May at Lamplighter Brewing in Cambridge, Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville, Harpoon Brewery’s harbor side beer hall, and Trillium Brewing’s two Boston locations, environmentally conscious consumers have turned in nearly 20,000 of the not-curbside-recyclable carriers for reuse and proper recycling.
During the 8-week pilot some 8,000 carriers were donated to smaller Boston area breweries such as Portico Brewing, Bone Up Brewing, Remnant Brewing and others for reuse in packaging their beer. The remaining 335 pounds of HDPE #2 plastic carriers have been hauled away by the program’s sponsor, GreenLabs Recycling, which will deliver it to a local plastics processor to be shredded, melted and then pelle
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Bar owners in Zanzibar decry police invasion
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Bar owners in Zanzibar decry police invasion
ZANZIBAR’s Association for Liquor Traders (JUWAVIZA) has said it was not right for fully armed members of the police and Security and Defence Committee from Zanzibar Urban West District to break into and arrest bar workers from various areas in Zanzibar.
This has been revealed here by JUWAVIZA Chairman Hussein Kimti to reporters in regard to an inspection crackdown of licences led by the District Commissioner Hamida Khamis Mussa.
Kimti said according to reports received from their members, fully armed police with other people who had masked their faces arrested bar workers from various areas and took away drinks after which they released them on bail.
Matthew Tota
That didn’t take long.
Fewer than 80 days after breweries won the right to cut ties with a distributor without having to wage a protracted legal battle, a distributor has called the new law unconstitutional and wants to fight a protracted legal battle.
Holliston wholesaler Atlantic Beverage Distributors has tried to deny Framingham brewer Jack’s Abby’s efforts to terminate its Massachusetts distribution agreement and buy back control of its brand by filing a lawsuit with the state’s Alcohol Beverages Control Commission.
Jack’s Abby represents the first high-profile brewer to invoke the new law, and this case will test the strength of the historic truce between brewers and distributors.