Filling & Production

Brewing kombucha commercially is like throwing a water-guzzling party. It slurps up 7 gallons of water for each gallon of booch. For less efficient breweries, it's a whopping 10 gallons. Plus, the energy needed for the rapid heating, chilling, and cold storage is no joke. It's a thirsty and power-hungry process, and Mother Nature is picking up the tab.

Transportation to Distribution Centers

That store-bought booch didn't just magically appear on the shelf. It took a detour to a distribution center, hitching a ride in a refrigerated truck. And let me tell you, those chilly trucks guzzle diesel like a dehydrated marathon runner. It's a cold, hard fact that they need more fuel than your standard big rig.

Transportation to Store

Your bottle of booch typically chills out in cold storage for a week or two at the distribution center before it struts its stuff on the store shelf. But getting it there? That's a whole other journey, mirroring the same supply chain shenanigans it's already been through twice. And let's be real, who keeps fresh booch in their fridge that long? We sure don't!

Recycle / Landfill

Recycling a glass bottle is like a high-energy dance-off. It demands nearly as much energy as crafting a new one, all because of the melt-it-down-and-make-it-new routine. And that's if we're lucky. Worst case? It ends up in a landfill, a sad finale for a once proud container.

Bottle Manufacturing

Picture this: sand is mined and then hitchhikes its way to the bottle factory, all on the back of fossil fuels. Then, in a fiery dance, fossil fuels crank up the heat, melting the sand into a molten glass river that's then sculpted into your bottle. It's a resource-intensive process that's as dramatic as it sounds!