Chris Hogan, vice president of communications for IBWA, said: “The bottled water industry is taking a broad-based approach to reducing its environmental footprint. All bottled water containers – whether plastic or glass – are 100% recyclable.”
According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC), over the past eight years the gram weight of a 16.9oz single-serve PET bottled water container has dropped by 32.6%.
3- and 5-gallon plastic bottled water containers are reused between 30-50 times before being recycled. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported plastic bottles make up less than 0.03% of the US waste stream.
Hogan said: “To encourage a comprehensive approach to effective recycling, IBWA developed its Material Recovery Programme (MRP), a collaborative joint venture between businesses and government.
“The MRP supports the development of new, comprehensive solutions to help manage solid waste in US communities by having all consumer product companies, including bottled water, work together with state and local governments to improve recycling and waste education and collection efforts for all packaged goods.”
Source: IBWA
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