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Past Years' Media

2006 Media Coverage

 

Rocky targets waste of bottled water

  Dec 17   Deseret Morning News
  CRI criticizes PET recovery rates   Dec 10   Plastics Recycling Update
  Plastic bottle recycling fails to keep up with increasing sales: Wasting up by 136 thousand tons (Press Release)   Dec 8   Container Recycling Institute
  Group Wants NatureWorks to Solve Problems before Introducing New Bottle   Dec 4   Waste Business Journal.com
  Recyclers Expand Campaign for Temporary Moratorium on New PLA Bottles (Press Release)
  Dec 4   The Plastic Redesign Project
  PET recycling rate rises, but doesn't keep pace   Dec 4   Waste News
  PET recycling rate rises, but doesn't keep pace   Dec 1   Plastics News
  Shareholder Resolutions Ask Pepsi, Coca-Cola To Set Environmental Goals for Containers   Dec 1   BNA Environment Reporter
  Used beverage containers: Waste or opportunity? [PDF,473kb]   Dec   Resource Recycling
  Glass recycling legislation   Dec   American Recycler
  Student Wins Watermill Essay Contest   Nov 16   KGBT 4 (Texas)
  Environment drowning in bottled water   Nov 16   Great Falls Tribune
  Whose Priorities? Making real progress towards improving beverage container recovery efforts starts with expanding bottle bills. (op-ed) [PDF,191kb]   Nov   Resource Recycling
  Beverage companies lack fizz in recycling, report finds   Nov   American Recycler
  PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Get Cs on Report Card for Ten Percent Recycled Content in Bottles   Oct 24   Social Funds website
  Not drinking the Kool-Aid (Editorial)   Oct 23   Waste News
  Beverage makers' recycling falls behind   Oct 23   Waste News
  Report cites second-rate recycling efforts   Oct 23   Plastics News
  Chic, pure water bottles wind up as un-chic garbage   Oct 21   The Journal News
  Report Faults Beverage Companies for Weak Container Recycling Levels   Oct 17   Recycling Today
  Beverage producers earn low grades for recycling efforts, industry accountability [PDF]   Oct 15   Packaging Strategies
  Major Beverage Companies Lack Fizz in Recycling, Report Finds (Press release)   Oct   CRI, As You Sow
  E-activism heats up on both sides of plastic   Sept 26   Plastics News
  Efforts afoot to expand the 'bottle bill'   Sept 9   The Journal News (New York)
  Summer fades, but the trash remains (Press release)   Aug 30   American Littoral Society, CRI, NYPIRG
  Aluminum can collection needs improvement   August   American Recycler
  A pat on the back   Jul 3   Waste News
  The Aluminum Can's Dirty Little Secret   Jun 29   Ipswich Chronicle
  It's time to see some action in Albany (Editorial)   Jun 27   Empirepage.com
  APR bucks bottlers on bottle deposits   Jun 16   Plastics News
  It's not easy being green: Beverage containers are trying to show the public their green side at a time when recycling rates are lagging   Jun 15   Beverage World
  Proponents won't give up on bottle bill; Bruno won't budge   Jun 12   Legislative Gazette (NY)
  Majority of recyclable plastic heads to landfills   Jun 5   Waste News
  BPEC Op-ed   Jun 5   Waste News
  Analyzing curbside collection data in
"State of garbage in America"
  Jun   BioCycle
  Down the Drain   May/Jun   Waste Management World
  Organizations accuse aluminum industry of "greenwashing"   May 30   Recycling Today
  The better bottle   May 30   The Morning Call (PA)
  CRI focuses on 'wasted' - not recycled - cans   May 22   American Metal Market
  The Aluminum Can’s Dirty Little Secret: On-Going Environmental Harm Outpaces the Metal’s “Green” Benefits   May 22   Waste Business Journal Weekly News Bulletin
  Aluminum can recycling reaches 52%, Not everyone is pleased   May 19   Raymond Communications
  The Aluminum Can’s Dirty Little Secret: On-going Environmental Harm Outpaces the Metal’s “Green” Benefits (Press Release)   May 17   Container Recycling Institute, International Rivers Network
  Not easy being green: Why has reusing wine bottles fallen by the wayside?   May 17   LA Times
  Bottled Water, Anyone?   May 12   Davao Sun.Star (Phillippines)
  Assembly passes 'bigger better bottle bill'   May 11   Mid Hudson News.com
  Assembly passes Bigger Better Bottle Bill by 2-1 margin   May 10  

Press Release

  Good for kids, bad for environment (Letter)   May 7   Berkshire Eagle
  How to recycle practically anything   May/Jun   EMagazine.com
  For trash-free Potomac, we must recycle (Letter)   Apr 29   Washington Post
  Review in Utne calls aluminum can piece in World Watch magazine a “gem”   Apr 21   Utne Reader
  Life Cycle Studies: Aluminum Cans [PDF, 780Kb]   May/Jun   Worldwatch Magazine
  Activists seek more details from NRC and BPEC   Apr 28   Resource Recycling
  A Flood of Bottled H20 Waters Down SA's Taste for Wine   Apr 23   Johannesburg Sunday Times
  Empty Bottle Can be an end or a beginning   Apr 21   Reno Gazette-Journal
  25 Simple Things You Can Do To SAVE THE PLANET   Apr 21   Palm Beach Post
  Environmental costs of bottled water (radio transcript)   Apr 20   Marketplace
  H2O-No!  Our insatiable thirst for bottled water puts a drain on the environment   Apr 20   Boston Herald
  Litter Still Piles Up: OCRRA urges state to expand bottle bill   Apr 13   Syracuse Post-Standard
  Get in the know about the cost of your H2O   Apr 12   Duluth News Tribune
  Time for a Bottle Bill   Apr-Jun   The Jersey Sierran
  'YES' to the bottle deposit bill: For a nickel, we can add jobs, cut litter   Mar 25   Memphis Commercial Appeal
  Packaging Diva Asks "What's In Your Bottle?" (Press Release)   Mar 22   Women In Packaging, Inc.
  Bottled water comes with more waste, less quality than tap   Mar 6   The Idaho Statesman
  Must be something in the water (comprehensive article on bottled water)   Feb 16   New York Times
  Bottled water: a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem   Feb 10   Agence France Press
  Bottled Water: Nectar of the frauds?   Feb 4   OneWorld.net
  Bottled Water: Pouring resources down the drain (press release)   Feb 2   Earth Policy Institute
  Fantastic plastic made from corn: 
Publix introduces a new product from BIOTA...
  Jan 26   Miami Herald
  Plastic recycling tips   Jan 11   Consumer Reports Greener Choices (Home and Garden Tips)
  The oceans' plastic plague   Winter   California Coast and Ocean

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