The demand for a no-waste lifestyle has led a distiller, Jack Rabbit Hill Farm in Hotchkiss, Colo., to come up with a clever way to minimize trash. Not content with having the empties of its MEll vodka hauled away from the bars and restaurants, where most of it is sold, the company picks them up as the milkman once did — at the back door. The bottles are sterilized in the distillery and reused to bottle more vodka. Lance Hanson, an owner, knows that a bartender cannot legally refill an empty liquor bottle, but the distillery can. As for the vodka, sold mostly in Colorado, it’s straightforward, no bells and whistles.
MEll Zero Waste Vodka, jackrabbithill.com.
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