1. The number of plastic bottles sold in the US last year. I only have
this in millions of pounds except for PET soda bottles.
mm lbs number of bottles
(billions)
PET Soda 1,521 21.35
PET Custom 1,030
Total PET 2,551
Total HDPE 2,855
Total Bottles 5,758
2. The recycled content requirements that the various states have for
plastic bottles
IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THE ANSWER TO QUESTION 2. PLEASE PASS IT ON TO US.
Thanks,
Pat Franklin
ExecDir
CRI
At 02:51 PM 5/19/99 -0600, John Reindl wrote:
>Does anyone have data on or a source of data for::
>
> 1. The number of plastic bottles sold in the US last year
>
> 2. The recycled content requirements that the various states
> have for plastic bottles
>
>
>Thanks much,
>
>John Reindl, Recycling Manager
>Dane County, WI
>
>reindl@co.dane.wi.us
>(608)267-1533 - fax
>(608)267-8815 - phone
>
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