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Packaging Facts:
All Beverage Containers

Fact Sheets

Beverage Container Packaging a $17 billion-a-year business in U.S. (1997)

BEVERAGES
From: Good Stuff? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Things We Buy - Worldwatch Institute [PDF] March 2004.

Alternatives to Packaged Beverages
Is it time to question our consumption of packaged soft drinks, juices, sports drinks, and teas? There are many other, less wasteful options. A suggestion for Zero Beverage Container Waste.

Statistics

For recycling, wasting, sales, and consumption of all types of beverage containers, see Recycling Rates: All Containers.

Container Recycling in the News

News articles, press releases, opinion, and other printed media on container recycling, quoting CRI.

Publications

Water, Water Everywhere: The Growth of Non-carbonated Beverages in the United States [pdf, 542kb]

Presentations

"Small Deposits, Big Returns"
Presented at the Rural Assistance Program, 8/23/2005 (PPT, 908 KB)

No Deposit, No Return, No Curbside: Dealing with Plastic Bag and Bottle Waste in Less-Industrialized Countries
Take it Back Conference 3/7/05 (PPT, 2.8 Mb)

The State of Wasting and Recycling Beverage Containers in America
CRI Bottle Bill Summit 12/01 (PPT, 452 Kb)