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Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the United Arab Emirates to sell to exclusive bars. Using glacial ice in drinks is a common practice in Greenland, and, over the years, several entrepreneurs have unsuccessfully attempted to export it.

Its co-founder Malik V Rasmussen said the ice, which has been compressed over millennia, is completely without bubbles and melts more slowly than regular ice. It is also purer than the frozen mineral water usually used in Dubai’s ice cubes.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 12 points 10 months ago

I put this in the cross post, bit figure it belongs here, too:

While ridiculous, there's interesting context here.

Greenland has little to no economy
The ice is mined from ice that has already broken away from the glacier, thus not reducing any more than nature has already
Cargo ships bringing frozen food used to leave empty, now that same fuel is used to transport ice back instead of going to waste
The founder has always dreamed of a sustainable economy for Greenland
He is conflicted about how his work to do this in a sustainable way is being taken

Lots of gray here.