BottleCycler a winner for Qantas Club

[oz_mark]

Didn't realise drinking from a tap was even an option...

The Melbourne Qantas Club is using a machine called a ‘BottleCycler’ to crush bottles on site to a consistent size for recycling, increasing previous glass recycling rates from 10% to 80%.

Qantas Club Lounge, which welcomes 5000 to 7000 members a day, has processed more than 361,000 bottles amounting to 72.2 tonnes of reusable glass since August 2007.


Qantas says that around 90% of its beer drinking members choose to drink from a bottle rather than a tap. As a result, each day the Qantas Club ends up with thousands of empty bottles. Despite the best efforts of bar staff to recycle waste, in some cases as little as 10% of glass is recycled from the hospitality industry in Australia because of contamination and restrictions with the recycling process. The remaining glass ends up in landfill.

BottleCycler a winner for Qantas Club > FOODweek Online > Main Features Page

 

[serfty]

When they first commenced using the the machines they were at the Bar area. I believe they have been moved as they were quite noisy when granulating the bottles.

 

[simongr]

Wow - I assumed that they actually recycled them already!

Also I don't often have the choice of tap or bottle in the QP - seem to only have bottle in the domestic QP I recall... except ADL of course...

 

[turbo]

This might sound like a bit of a dumb question to some, but regarding the comment made in an above post:

"Qantas Club Lounge, which welcomes 5000 to 7000 members a day, has processed more than 361,000 bottles amounting to 72.2 tonnes of reusable glass since August 2007"

Would that figure be for the Melb QC alone or all the Australian ones do people think? I have been in the MEL one several times in the last few weeks, but prior to that not for about 3 months and even during what I thought would be 'quiet times' it resembled feeding time at the zoo.

 

[NM]

Would that figure be for the Melb QC alone or all the Australian ones do people think? I have been in the MEL one several times in the last few weeks, but prior to that not for about 3 months and even during what I thought would be 'quiet times' it resembled feeding time at the zoo.

I expect that is MEL alone. I think I have seen those numbers at the same time in SYD T3 lounge on some Friday afternoons!

 

[serfty]

This might sound like a bit of a dumb question to some, but regarding the comment made in an above post:

"Qantas Club Lounge, which welcomes 5000 to 7000 members a day, has processed more than 361,000 bottles amounting to 72.2 tonnes of reusable glass since August 2007"

Would that figure be for the Melb QC alone or all the Australian ones do people think? I have been in the MEL one several times in the last few weeks, but prior to that not for about 3 months and even during what I thought would be 'quiet times' it resembled feeding time at the zoo.

I may disagree with NM here.

Note the the bad grammar: "Qantas Club Lounge, which welcomes 5000 to 7000 members a day".

It doesn't say MEL but infers it - methinks deliberately.

MEL QP is open at 0500 and, depending upon flights, closes ~20:00, that's 15 hours per day. So at ~6000 guests per day, that's 400 per hour (if each guest stays 1 hour).

From experience it does not normally get crowded until mid-afternoon and by 7pm the rush is over, by 8pm nearly empty. During Weekends it's rarely busy.

So I'm gunna stick my neck out here and say the writer/editor of the article was using a bit of license and suggest that figure is for more than the one QP.

 

[QF WP]

We need to have a meet-up in the MEL QP to increase their recycling standards...I'd like to know how many they crushed in the BNE QP after the FT AGM in February

 

[serfty]

Wot? they transported the empties to MEL? :shock:

 

[QF WP]

No...but they would have needed a decent sized recycling truck to cart away all our empties...and hopefully BNE also recycles them (like MEL)

 

[JohnK]

Am I the only that is confused by this quote?

Qantas says that around 90% of its beer drinking members choose to drink from a bottle rather than a tap. As a result, each day the Qantas Club ends up with thousands of empty bottles. Despite the best efforts of bar staff to recycle waste, in some cases as little as 10% of glass is recycled from the hospitality industry in Australia because of contamination and restrictions with the recycling process. The remaining glass ends up in landfill.

I didn't think it was possible to drink from a bottle in domestic Qantas Lounges. The bar staff pour the contents of the beer bottle into a glass.

Before the BottleCycler how did the bottle become contaminated and not suitable for recycling but rather used for landfill. And how does the BottleCycler crush bottles to reduce, or even eliminate, contamination?

 

[Evan]

John,

- Your right in my experience, the bottless are poured into a glass.
- I think the other comment about going into land fill was a general comment, nothing at all to do with QF, they were refering to other general locations.

E

 

[serfty]

I think the actual meaning could be illustrated with a re-write:

Qantas says that around 90% of its beer drinking members choose to drink beer [served] from a bottle rather than a tap.

Consider the issue of "Drinking beer from a Tap".:shock:

 

[simongr]

Considered and I must say .... I like the plan