Tasmania has built a reputation for producing some top-notch spirits and promoting its clean, green credentials — so it's not surprising the two have managed to cross paths at a farmers' market in the state's north.
"We've had whisky bottles and gin bottles and we'll fill anything as long as it's clean," olive oil producer Rob Goddard joked.
He is one of many stallholders at Launceston's Harvest Market encouraging customers to recycle and re-use glass bottles and containers.
Voted the top farmers' market at the 2017 Delicious Produce Awards, Harvest is trying to create a sustainable model for selling food direct to customers.
Organisers are ramping up their efforts in the month of July, supporting stallholders to swap plastic for paper bags.
Trish Haeusler from Plastic Free Launceston loves the idea.
"I think more people have an expectation that when they're buying a product, that if it does have packaging, that some sort of thought has been put into what will happen when it's disposed of," she said.
"Can it be recycled?
"If it can't be recycled, what's happening to it?"
Tasmania was one of the first states to ban single-use plastic bags in 2013.
This means the apple isle has had more time to adjust to the change than other shoppers, who have lashed out at the major supermarkets this week for ditching their single-use plastic bags and making customers pay for new thicker ones.
Fruit grower Brendan Morrison has taken up the challenge to remove plastic from his site at the farmers' market this month and sells apples in large brown paper bags.
He said while the process had taken more work, the customer feedback was worth it.
"To prepare for this we've actually had to let the fruit warm up," he said.
"Where usually we can put them into plastic bags, put them in the cool room and then bring them straight out and take them to the market.
"Some people have said they can't see the apples in the bag, but overall it's been very good."
Ms Haeusler said farmers needed to be supported to reduce their use of plastic.
"The plastic that's being used on farms — how can that be collected and where can it be deposited to be recycled?" she said.
"So I think they are concerned about the issue and very much wanting to be part of the solution."
Organic dairy Elgaar Farm was training its customers to recycle well before the war on waste movement was born.
Empty glass bottles are returned to their Harvest Market site and 50 cents comes off the price of a new bottle of milk, cream or yoghurt.
"I think it's important that we stop throwing away plastic bottles," farmer Antonia Gretschmann said.
"We would have thrown away millions of plastic bottles through those years when we started in the 90s.
"We deliver to a few shops and the customers bring back their bottles, so it's great."
