I write about the plastic beer bottle each month in my plastics recycling
newsletter. Allow me to make a few comments about David Wood's remarks.
According to the Association of Post-Consumer Plastics Reclaimers (which
represents more than 90 percent of the PET recycling firms in the U.S. and
Canada), current usage of PET bottles by Miller, Anheuser Busch and Coors
does not present a serious impediment to PET reclamation, either in terms of
current levels of amber being received (especially from deposit-law states),
nor the current bottlemaking technologies being uses (generally a nylon layer
in a five-layer bottle). In fact, the Coors bottle has probably the highest
level of recycled PET (35%) of any PET bottle in use today. I'm most willing
to provide any listserv readers with the names of folks to call and citations
in the literature. Also, this issue was the topic of a panel at this year's
NRC two days ago.
Jerry Powell, Editor
Plastics Recycling Update
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