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In a message dated 5/3/2005 2:38:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, anderson@no.address writes:You just might get what you wish for In 2000, recycling advocacy groups led by the GrassRoots Recycling Network started pressuring Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. to use more recycled PET. That year, Coke officials agreed to start using 10 percent recycled content in billions of the company's bottles. In 2002, PepsiCo officials outlined a goal to use 10 percent recycled content in their firm's containers. But those environmental community victories are putting recyclers and processors on the spot to come up with enough material for everybody. Coke and Pepsi together are consuming in the neighborhood of an additional 200 million pounds of recovered PET bottles or so per year, according to recycling industry estimates. The additional demand has led to shortages of 100 million to 200 million pounds per year, according to Cavin. Green Yes; Yet in Europe they (plastic packaging industry) pay the local governments to burn the plastic in the local incinerators and in the US they refuse (legislative lobbyists) to allow the States and the US Congress to pass producer responsibility (container deposit) legislation. We need to stop burning and burying plastic and continue to push for more recycling opportunities for the material. The GRRN goal was to get the price of RPET to go up so recyclers could cover their costs to collect and process the material by making the packaging producers responsible and that is what is happening (supply and demand). Rick Ricanthony@no.address RichardAnthonyAssociates.com San Diego, California |
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