Zambia Breweries has been forced to import empty bottles from South Africa due to the poor empty bottle returning culture among some members of the public.
Company Corporate Affairs Manager Wendi Muche says the company has resorted to the importation of empty bottles because some consumers were withholding the empty bottles.
Ms. Muche however said that the beverage manufacturing company is now back in full operation and satisfying the demand on the market after importing empty bottles from South Africa.
She told ZANIS in Lusaka today that the public should embrace a consistent culture of returning and disposing off of beverage bottles.
Ms. Muche said Zambian Breweries has so far lost an undisclosed amount of money due the recent shortage of empty bottles for packaging of beverages which the company experienced.
She added that the shortage also resulted in shortage of beverages in some parts of the country.
Ms. Muche also disclosed that the company is also currently discussing with the Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ) on devising a mechanism of collecting dumpy bottles for recycling.
Ms. Muche however said the bottles will be transported to the neighboring Zimbabwe for recycling as there is no glass crushing and manufacturing company in Zambia.
She said the move is in line with environmental safety standards adding that Zambia Breweries is concerned with the manner in which the disposable beverage bottles are being disposed by the consumers.
Ms. Muche has since urged the public to return empty beverage bottle and ensure that disposable bottles are properly disposed off in designated places.
Lusaka and some parts of the Copperbelt were last week hit by a shortage of Beverages due to a shortage of empty bottles that Zambia Breweries experienced.
Most shops in Lusaka had by Wednesday run out of the beverages with some traders taking advantage and hiking the price of the drinks by between 100 and 200 kwacha.
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This is more the reason to re-open Kapiri Glass Products (KGP).
But Mu Zambia Zoona! ZB should offer an incentive if it wants ba chakolwa to be returing empties such as K100/bottle. Install collection machines in different places that gives a receipt showing the worth of your returned bottles and that receipt should allow you to buy anything worht as much in that shop. Translation…ZB should partner with supermarkets in this process. The other thing is that this opens up a business opportunity for the former KGF to be re-booted so that it continues its recylcing operations. By so doing, they will create jobs and save the environment with one stone.
To be honest most countrie have done away with re using bottles. It is very unhygienic.
countries not countrie!
You are right # 1. It’s time that ZB moved away from re-usable bottles. This tendency to reuse bottles is unhealthy. These multinational corporations must implement the same practices that they practice in their home countries. Coca Cola (the company) does not resue bottles in all developed countries but continue doing so in developing countries. We know how people use these bottles for cooking oil/parafin. etc. The cleaning process at Coca Cola is not very effective. Ask Michael Sata about cockroaches in coca cola.
#5 you mean #3 I know.
What muche is not saying is that the cost of importing those botlles from SA(which create employment there and not zed) shall be passed on to the unsuspecting zambian chakolwa and to top it of she is going ahead to ask another company within the group with no revenue coz of the current situ in zim bottle to crash and recycle the bottles.
Makes business sense coz wealth is circling around themselves…
Those sleeping zambians on the management & board need to tell us really how sustainable a move to recycle in zim and buy again through SA this transaction is. Chani baba, mulebako bullish bamambala
zambia is still primitive,hey woke zambia this issue of reusing empty bottles is long gone,even countries like congo and angola have done away with that practice years ago,thats why people end up drinking cockroaches,some people use the same bottles to urinate in,thats why each time am in zambia i only drink disposable drinks
#1 I thought Kapiri Glass Products is still operational but in private hands. It was bought by Costain Chilala. However I don’t know whether it’s performing well. I tend to agree with #7. We are living in a global village.
# 1, you just said it all. why give business to Zimbabwe? Cant we open KGP and why ask the public to have a “consistent culture of returning and disposing off of beverage bottles”?
I am sure these no incentive in somebody returning the bottle otherwise homeless people and the like would have made it their business to collect and return those bottles
surely somebody can come up with a better and intelligent idea rather than blaming the public for not returning bottles
ZB is not ben truthful. ZB refused to guarantee a market for KGP, before and after sale to Chilala. ZB does not deal directly with consumers, and imposes a strict bottle policy on the traders who also pass it on. Increased recycling of the bottles within Zed and canning the beverage, have been put forth to ZB. They’ve always said ‘no’, just to guarantee contracts to their fellow South Africans. They’ve been importing the bottles from SA on a regular basis as they increase production, and now want to make it look like its a ‘one of’ thing this time. And look at the way they advertise castle over mosi. One gets the sense they’re trying to kill ‘mosi’ to create demand for the SA brand.
When President Mugabe of Zimbabwe said his economy was not in a crises, he went on to say the the Zimbabwean economy is doing far much better than most African countries, exept for bread that was lucking on the shelve, now i believe him.
Now we are talking of transporting bottles to the neighboring Zimbabwe for recycling as there is no glass crushing and manufacturing company in Zambia [After calling that country a sinking titanic].
Which Country is in a crises?
let them run out stock so we could have some sober state for a week and no beer!!
Mosi the brand has been dying a slow death….simply put, castle is the brand of choice for most wannabees and those mixers at ZB messed up the crispy gold flavour of that smoke that thunders and pushed thru ads castle.
This is the result of lack of strategic sale of these manufactureing companies. I mean lets not go further look at how telecel-MTN takeover was handled.
This is embarrasing to say the least, importing bottles to support the artificial thirsts of the public. Who shares in the cost of importing these bottles.
To whose advantage is it?
Well, this is a business opportunity for some serious business people.
#6, NO, I meant # 1. I had started typing before you posted so I did see your posting!
# 14 I agree with you Mosi beer has deliberately been pushed out of market by SAB. If Mosi is being pushed out the market I wonder if RHINO the pride of the copperbelt is still in existance
Who really cares,them importing bottles from south,by the way that company is south african,it was sold long back by HH and Chilubas,besides why reuse bottles when they make huge profits,they pay their workers slave wages and also its true most countries are moving away from that un hygenic way of life,zambia bottles whatever you may call yourself,improve on your quality,those zambians keeping bottles home are telling you they want to with other countries that use modern disposable stuff,zedians keep those bottles home
Lady B, that where we have missed it. Our own national brand intrusting it in the hands of south africans and if they say they dont want to produce it because its costly what are we going to say, infact we have no say!
Don’t drink from these bottles. Drunks urinate in them. Be ware of getting STDs
Zambia will soon be a province of South Africa, or may be it has already become one.
Iwe wendi,you should find a method of collecting these bottles from compunds at a small fee and get into partnership with some recycling companies in zed rather supporting the Hotentots.
Z – kamutengo – B
The mosi taste is so different from the one we knew.
It’s very sad that, a company of ZB’s calibre still doesn’t have plan B on bottles. Can’t someone come up with a more sensible idea than importing bottles from South Africa and exporting recycled dumpies to Zimbabwe.
Since it’s almost impossible to build infrastracture in Zambia…someone should consider re-opening Kapiri Glass company.
We are the buyers of manufactured goods and products from southafrica.
Q Since when did we become dumping ground of Southafrican Products.
ANS Since the time the FTJ Kafupi imported the 1st apple and cabbage from Southafrica.
The people were crying, no soap, no sugar, no apples. And so Kafupi said lets give them what they want.
Quick fix solutions have costed this country dearly. So dont be surprised that next time you will be importing water and air from down south.
Kapiri glass will never happen,the makers of mosi are not zambians,zambians make chibuku and kachasu,let those south africans who have bought our mosi find new ways of parcaging their products,we are doing well with chibuku and kachasu
FROM # 2 TO # 26 BAMBULI MULIBE NZELU EN I HOPE & TRUST YOU ARE ALL BA KAMANORMAL(YOU DONT DRINK) OTHERWISE A REAL DRUNKER MUST HAVE ALMOST A CRATE OF BOTTLES KU BOND SO AS TO PROMOTE TAKEAWAY THER BY ENTERTAINING WIVES AND REDUCE ON HIV/AIDS RISKS. YOURS FAITHFULLY, SERIOUS BLOGA. SC
you too from #28 To 100
Where is this short-fall coming from, coz there is Barter-system during the buying/ordering of “Buzele”.I think something fishy is going on.This is happening even in the mining set-up,where even the buying of ‘Tissue’is SA-SA.someone is benefiting.
Imwe bamukuta, what are you talking about when you say the developed world has done away with re-usable bottles? which countries are you refering to? Visit the Scandinavian countries (The most stable and sustainable economies of the world) They re-use and recycle bottles. Every pint is worth 20 euro cents, and some un-employed people earn their living through colecting empty bottles and returning them through collection machines installed at every food stall. This even helps with keeping the cities clean, and saving the environent. Nomba imwe ngamwakolwa you start breaking ama botolo pa road. Ba makaka, you should travel and learn.
#27 and 26, very intelligent and thoughtful comments.
SAB is using the MOsi formula to brew Castle Lager. No wonder Zambian Castle tastes like the original Mosi. Mosi now tastes like katwishi.
Ba Myself You will never find a re-usable bottle in the world`s biggest economies. They dont do them any more. It is not healthy. We know who calls the shots. It is a pity they thought they short themselves in the foot going into Iraq. But then again, it is small countries which are going to pay the price. Give it to them.
You know who I am on about. Now stop your little insults.
Yangu stop contradicting yourself.
Zed Power, there’s no point arguing with you on this issue, it seems we live in two different worlds…I didn’t make refference to the world’s biggest economies but “stable and sustainable” economies. see the difference????
British bum cleaners stop this developed thing. We know the sort of Jobs you do out there in the UK and America.
I know of a person who was a banker here in Zed. He only works as a watchman there in the UK. KFC, Mac Donald`s I lived there.
To a white man all blacks stink. You would be working with them but what they say when you leave God knows. Away with your rubbish disposable bottles. It can not work here in Zed.
BBC British bum cleaners
ABC American bum cleaners
Imwe bamukuta, what are you talking about when you say the developed world has done away with re-usable bottles? which countries are you refering to? Visit the Scandinavian countries (The most stable and sustainable economies of the world) They re-use and recycle bottles. Every pint is worth 20 euro cents, and some un-employed people earn their living through colecting empty bottles and returning them through collection machines installed at every food stall. This even helps with keeping the cities clean, and saving the environent. Nomba imwe ngamwakolwa you start breaking ama botolo pa road. Ba makaka, you should travel and learn.
God look at your second sentence.
36 u r really a cock,do u think all zambians here are cleaners?were do u think doctors from your stinking UTH have gone u mad man
#38. Calm down son. I said to a white person a black man stinks. This includes doctors. I worked there and I know what I am talking about. Chances are you have been at one time told that you stink the moment you left work.
Yeah majority of Zamabians in the UK are bum cleaners. I would be ashamed coming on here with a screen name Nyambe England. Your life is in-doors. Your chldren are abused at school. You are socially isolated. I know where I would want to be.
Now shut it you girl pants.
#39…how can you be that disrespectful to your own…u’re just an under achiever, a paranoid racist who want to blame it on us.
Our bum cleaners, dish washers and the like make more, and lead a better life than most of your blue colored workers in your sorry country.
Whilst here, u get ass f*&@ked, and lead a secluded life in a nest of a home and assume every body lives like that…
Get psychological help…oh I forgot there are only two psychologists in your country and u brother can’t afford them.
#40 You fool. What do those cleaners go through in their cleaning jobs? Made to work longer hours for what their fellow British will only do 4 hours.
Tell me, have you never heard that whites say that you stink? Deluded? May be you are one of those can not hack it when they come back.
#40 never been called a black bustard? You ***** even have the balls to call me racist! Simple man. How many times have your children been to say they were called nigger at school.
#40 I was probably accepted than may be you are. But then again, if you are black you are black. Don`t be an ***** and pretend all is well. I lived there longer than you have been. Blacks live in isolation there and it is worse if you are black and you have got an accent like you *****.
I laugh when I see a Zambian come back home thinking the are better than those that have never been to miserable places like the UK.
#40 Even in Brixton where it is predominantly black, managers are whites, bus drivers are blacks, door bouncers are blacks.
Hello Anonymous! Gone back into your terraced house? Back to the cave init?
Ah Phiri Anabwela…disillusioned!
No wonder these whites get confused when they come pa zed and given a big house in kabulonga 4 bedromed self contened, big garden two sevarnts two gardenners and 24hrs malonda! cant belive it compared to their cubicles atase!those cubicles they call homes whatmore for a black muntu!!
RSA bought the plant and got mosi blue print and sideline it, then they promote their brand castle. Oooh Dont wake me up because am enjoying cheap canned beer from Botswana through DRC. As cheap as K 2 500/can
Iwe ci Lady Blue kalale. We know the job you do. Whites were not doing those jobs.
What is ZABS saying about all this
nothing.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
My brother ” I CAN NOT WORK IN A WHITE MANS COUNTRY AGAIN” you seem to be hurt and i take it your experience in a white man’s country was terrible. we are made to believe that you were a bum wiper and that has left a bitter taste in your mouth. You see my brother, life is all about choices and decisions. I feel for you that you travelled miles on end with hopes only to end up wiping a white man’s bum. Obviously your decision was ill timed and your reaped what you sew. You dont expect to have a better life abroad if you are an illegal immigrant or dont have the necessray qualifications. In short my man get a life and get over your disappointment.
Indeed # 53 well said. This brother needs to get alife. He needs help or therapy . Dont expect the world to be sorry for you because you did bnot make the most of the fruits in a foreign land. There are blacks who are doing well everywhere you go some are even on the brink of being presidents so my man if you failed to make it it was your misforturne .
I CAN NOT WORK IN A WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY, please get the f#$k off the blog and take your racism and bitterness to hell. who told you to go and work in the UK? did anyone give you that job at gun point? too bad you ended up wiping bums but who cares any normal man has been down before it is the ability to rise up that matters. Grow up and be a man
I remember LPM saying all those Zambians working in foreign countries were failures back home.
# 56 LPM is the biggest failure why is he lying in a coma in a foreign country
# 56 what is your profession and how did you find your self in the UK? Obviously if you are not well educated that is problem in a foreign country secondly if you dont legalise your stay that is an even bigger problem.
Hey
Whats happening ? From ZB bottles to serious insults of racism ? Come on you are brothers and please spare us from those insults.
I think this guy white man has got a point. I went to Germany for 4 years. I knew I was coming back after I finished what I was doing and to be fair it is not a place one would want to live permanently. There are certain places a black man can not just think of going.
But then again our economy is forcing people into modern slavery. I am just glad for the experience. Made me open my eyes.
Hmmmmmmmm……………………..
I was at Southampton University. If I was told I was going to live in England forever I would have come back right away. When you are waling the streets it is not written on your back your are a graduate. To a muzungu a black man is a black man. I remember Ian Wright being abused at a football match.
We went out for a drink one afternoon, on our way back, we met this group of about 17 year olds who started yelling insults like niggers!
# 60 you are not supposed to live permanently in a foreign land just get the knowledge , experience and some of their resources and book out. The same way they do us. This young man who cant work in a white mans country again is a bitter man instead of cherishing his experience like you did. Life is all but a journey we should go with the flow and enjoy the ride. We must make most of any situation, be an opprtunist dont cry over spilt milk. That is what life is all about.
# 62 what a lame story. # 56 get over it man . lets get back to ZB importing empty bottles
Zambian breweries is just a name to blind fold us and yet owners are South Africans. This is why they have resorted to bringing in bottles from their sister company in South Africa, simple. Why should they cheat that consumers are withholding the empty bottles ?
Unfortunately, our former colonial masters and other economic scavangers are back to continue stealing our wealth where their fathers left. They have come in all different forms, of Investors, peace corps, volunteers and some in the pretext of coming to learn local languages. Zambians, cant we see this ?
The fact that the so called developed countries no longer use re-usable bottles tells a story. Would they be bothered?
I was watching news about Southafrica. I was quite surprised to find out what black southafricans think about thier neighbours.
They think it was Mandela who freed them from the shackles of Apartheid and SADC is simply milking from them.
These whites in Southafrica broke the spirit of the man (Mandela) they (whites) magnify the bigness of Mandelas heart for having forgiven them on behalf of the rest of them blacks.
But what else could the Man have done, I wonder if his heart would have taken him this far if he decided not to forgive them.
It was for his own good that he forgave them.
But the blacks are so blinded and Ignorant to think that Mandela freed himself.
Generally an average southafrican black thinks that they can do without their neighbours.
Well said to someone who had a bitter experience abroad. Since you are happy back home just chill-out and sto trying to get everybody to go back home.
Some of us are happy abroad because we are able to take care of ourselves and help our people back home. I had a reasonably good job back home, but never got paid on time.
I have had decent jobs here and i will be graduating from school next april with a degree in a good field. Therefore, my life here is definitinately better than me being back there. Just chill-out…it’s nobody’s fault that you had a terrible experience wherever you were…SORRY!
#69 For God`s sake that is done with. Even if you get a degree were are you going to take it? There is a deliberate policy in the UK now where they are going to employ their own or people from the EU before they start looking at foreigners like you. So what did you go there with because you have only just got a degree? You never got paid on time? Who did you work for? Are you better off now? Socially the UK is the last place one would want to live. Blacks have no life. I also lived there. Bills, different NI numbers, driving licences have got a bit where it says where you were born.
The man was emotional in the way he came out on here but it is only true one would only want to be home.
what is this nonsense of living in the UK USA etc,or living in zambia, if you can make it in America go for it, if Zed is your bread and butter why not. Ala bane we all make it in our own way. Like what the other guy said cino calo ni sebana wikute.Why do you think a grown man like RB was cying in public. Happy woman you go girl the world is your oyster. Cant work for white man, ngana tu sangalala pa Zed . At the end of the day we are all happy
My brother # 68, black pipo in South Africa are the worst kind you can find. The illiteracy level is dangerously sublime. The only reason they want Zuma to lead is because he is a fellow illiterate.I can tell you that in the next 10 years RSA will be just like any oyher African country. And we will welcome them in the SADC region as fellow Africans
Chimwemwe (JHB)- I hear you.
@#69 and #71, Right on sis and bro. Ignore comments from dissillusioned Phiris.
Iwe ka lady blue, stop being a tribalist and look for another noun to discribe ifi soso ala! Wa be sylvester stallone.
Disposable bottles will increase the amount of waste, considering Gabbage collection in Zambia is very poor. Mosi has now been phased out by the crooked SAB that have changed the formula. The Mosi dumpy has a very strange taste,wonder what chemicals are being added.
The consumer is entitled to withhold the bottle and reuse it at will.He or she owns it legally by paying and nothing is written on it like “property of ZB return to the nearest liquor store” .ZB should bare the cost and not just maximise their profits.ask SEYUBA why they never had the problem like this.
Is there any chemical engineer around who knows the old formular for mosi.Come out so that we can come up with idea to restore the original Zambian beer.We used to tilt the bottle at about an angle of 60 degrees just to let it flow like a Falls as the name “mosi-o-tunya fall” suggests. I deary miss the original.
Kapiri Glass will reopen.
Germany still uses re-usable bottles!!!!!
kapiri glass will be running by end of mid next year….
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