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Waste & Opportunity: U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and R
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This report evaluates the recycling practices of 23 large beverage companies in the U.S. As You Sow found that despite some impressive progress, most beverage companies continue to fail basic criteria for dealing with the environmental implications of their packaging. More than 200 billion beverage containers are sold in the U.S. each year, but over 130 billion of those are still sent to landfills and incinerated, representing a huge waste of natural resources.
The report offers seven key recommendations to the beverage industry to improve its recycling practices including: commit to using the highest possible levels of post consumer recycled content in beverage containers; support public policies that significantly increase the recycling of beverage containers; and publicly report on container recycling progress each year.
This report evaluates the recycling practices of 23 large beverage companies in the U.S. As You Sow found that despite some impressive progress, most beverage companies continue to fail basic criteria for dealing with the environmental implications of their packaging. More than 200 billion beverage containers are sold in the U.S. each year, but over 130 billion of those are still sent to landfills and incinerated, representing a huge waste of natural resources.
