Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The Coca-Cola Foundation today announced a call for applications for the 2013 Coca-Cola/KAB Recycling Bin Grant Program, a program designed to expand and support recycling in communities across America. The ...
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The Steel Recycling Institute declared that the recycling rate for the world’s most recycled material steel is at an all time high of 92%. More than 85 million tonne of steel scrap was consumed by steelmaking furnaces in 2011 an ...
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The recycling rate for steel has reached an all-time high of 92%, according to a recent announcement from the Steel Recycling Institute, an industry association that promotes the recycling of all steel products. In 2011, more than 85 ...
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EUROFER and EuroMetaux have published a joint brochure entitled Recycling Rates for Metals. The brochure supports valid and harmonised recyclability and recycling measurement approaches. These are essential for measuring improvement ...
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Coca-Cola is taking a legal case against the Northern Territory cash-for-containers scheme, which is the only comprehensive recycling and litter reduction scheme that really works, said Jeff Angel, convenor of Boomerang Alliance. "Mt ...
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The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA)'s consumer website has released a new YouTube video, Meet Norman, that shows how bottled water bans are having an unintended effect by shifting consumption to less healthy drinks packaged ...
The American Beverage Association is honoring America Recycles Day by supporting a pilot project called "Recycle on the Go" in Palm Beach County, Florida, to increase the amount of recycled cans and bottles and decrease the amount of ...
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Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), a marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products will announce two new sustainability proposals that obligate the company to setting the standard for sustainable packaging, achieving zero waste. In ...
The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA)'s consumer website has released a new YouTube video, Meet Norman, that shows how bottled water bans are having an unintended effect by shifting consumption to less healthy drinks packaged ...
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The recycling rate for all aluminium packaging in the UK based on the figures released by Defra show that it has increased by more than 4% putting the overall recycling rate at 45%, according to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling ...
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Product stewardship system for consumer packaging, the Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) is set to launch new recycling initiative at selected KFC restaurants throughout New South Wales (NSW) in Australia. The national recycling ...
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Metro Nashville Coca-Cola and Kroger have collaborated for a new green initiative, Recycle & Win, which has been designed to increase recycling rates. For the program's implementation in the Nashville market, Coca-Cola and Kroger have ...
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The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK, comprising of Tetra Pak, SIG Combibloc and Elopak, has entered into an agreement with paper producer Sonoco Alcore to set up a beverage carton recycling plant near Halifax. ...
UK companies including Ocado, Carlsberg, Nestlé Waters, PLB Group and Typhoo have signed up to the Courtauld Commitment, taking the total number of major UK brands, suppliers and retailers to 53 signatories. The voluntary ...
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The packaging giant has launched its biannual sustainability update entitled Mission Possible (26 July). Tetra Pak has set itself ambitious targets to double the global recycling rate of its cartons from 20% in 2010 to 40% by 2020. ...
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