[greenyes] Year-to-date: 50 billion bottles & cans wasted

[Jenny Gitlitz <jenny.gitlitz@no.address>]

In the next few minutes, the "bottle clock" on the CRI website will tick
past the 50 billion mark.  At that time, according to our estimates,
Americans will have "trashed" (landfilled, incinerated or littered) 50
billion beverage bottles and cans since January 1, 2004.

This is based on our estimate of 129 billion beverage containers to be
wasted in 2004, or 354 million a day, and over 4,000 each second.

You can monitor the minute-by-minute trashing of beverage containers on our
homepage: www.container-recycling.org.

--Jenny

Jennifer Gitlitz
Research Director, Container Recycling Institute

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Container Recycling Institute headquarters:
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