The Washington Wine Academy is a 501c3 not for profit organization based in Alexandria, VA and founded in 1999.

Though, we are not a Fortune 500 company, we understand our impact (or our global footprint) to the environment will be noticed. Therefore, we wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some of our "Green" initiatives we have undertaken to make that foot print much smaller.

The Washington Wine Academy:

• Recycles over 90% of all wine bottles we use for tastings, private/public events, wine certification courses, festivals, receptions and more.
  
  
• Recycles over 90% of wine box cardboard, office paper and magazines.
  
  
• Recycles water bottles, beer bottles (from our DC School of Beer) and soda cans.
  
  
• Uses recycled materials in our in-house printing.
  
  
• Prints most materials in house to save on fuel, shipping fuel and packaging materials.
  
  
• Prints materials, programs and publications two-sided to save paper.
  
  
• We use glass plates vs. paper in our catering operations to save on paper waste.
  
  
  We feel everyone can make a difference. It takes efforts to recycle wine bottles, cardboard and office paper but we feel it is worth it.

Remember - Think Global and Act Local!



Jim Barker next to a recycle hopper at the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show held at the DC Convention Center in November 2008. We filled three of these with beer and wine bottles at our Beer, Wine and Spirits Pavillion throughout the weekend.

See you soon at a future Washington Wine Academy tastings, socials, wine festivals or one of our wine certification classes!