You can get free (or discounted) beer by recycling PakTech can holders at these local breweries

If there’s something Milwaukeeans love more than drinking a good beer, it’s getting a good deal. And if an independent local business and Mother Nature are both helped in the process, even better! Though the days of returning glass bottles of Blatz for some change to put towards the next case are long gone, a handful of local breweries are giving environmentally conscious beer aficionados the chance to get free (or discounted) beer in exchange for something they’d otherwise toss in the recycling bin—or worse yet, the trash.

You know those plastic beer beer holders that snap to the top of 4-packs and 6-packs of beer? They’re made by PakTech and they’re of value to craft breweries. If kept clean and intact, they’re reusable over and over again. As such, a few breweries will happily give you free pours of their product (or discounts towards your next pint) if you give them a stack of PakTech. You get free beer, a small business saves a little money, and Mother Nature breathes a sign of relief. Seems like a win-win-win, doesn’t it?

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