Hey, Purdy! sounds like some sort of a ruse to me. During jobs past, I'd
worked for owners who made barmen break empty liquor bottles: crafty
bartenders could refill name brands w/ rotgut, sneak them into the
inventory, charge customers for top shelf, not ring in the sale & then
pocket the loot w/o shorting the inventory. The ostensiblereason was that
"the ABC required it to prevent watering down drinks." No one in the biz
that I've ever met, barkeep nor owner, nor inspector, has mentioned anything
like your circumstance. Wedding mills & off-premise caterers had always been
great resources fro bottle mining. I'd be interested to learn what the ACB
has to say... regards, bobdrob


> wrote in message
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> Morning-
>
> One of my regular suppliers of empty wine bottles told me last night
> that they could no longer provide them because the ACB (Alcohol
> Controll Board) laws prohibit that. The exact quote -"I just can't
> give you empty wine bottles- the ACB laws prohibit that!"
>
> uh huh.
>
> A cursory glance thru the general provisions and the wine provisions,
> as well as a search for 'empty' or 'disposal' for NY has shown nothing,
> I'm composing an inquiry to them right now as it wouldn't suprise me,
> being in NY, that there is a provision tucked away somewhere else.
>
> It's just a sad day for recycling- they don't even bother to seperate
> them from the trash... all the bottles end up in the landfill.
>
> Jason
>