Opinion

US recycling rates show little progress

Richard Hall15 Dec 2011

It’s not shocking that US recycling rates rose in 2010, because they should have. It’s shocking that they are no better than in the late 1990s.

Figures from the Aluminum Association show that aluminium recycling reached over 60% up to the year 2000. In 2010, it was 58.1%.

Numbers from Napcor, the National Association for PET Container Resources, put PET recycling at close to 25% in 1998. In 2010, it was 29.1%.

Our industry really must make more progress than this.

Richard Hall is chairman of Zenith International. You can also read his blog at BevBlog.

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Richard Hall is chairman of Zenith International.