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Recycling in General

2008

A society of guzzlers (Opinion)	Aug 12		Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Recycle, Don't Litter	Jul 3		The Ledger (FL)
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide	Apr 1		The Hillsboro Argus
EarthTalk Talks Recycling	Jan 3		Santa Monica Mirror

2007

•	Does Drinking Soda Contribute to Global Warming?		Dec 29		HealthNewsDigest.com
•	84 Ways You Can Help the Planet		Nov 18		The Boston Globe
•	More Than Half of Americans Support Mandatory Recycling to Help Reduce Global Warming: New National Poll Shows Positive Public Response, but Recycling Numbers Still Gloomy (Press Release)		Nov 14		Enviromedia
•	Recycling company looks toward Vermont		Oct 8		Bennington Banner (Vermont)
•	30 small suggestions to help save the planet		Sep 23		The Dallas Morning News
•	This problem is spilling over (Editorial)		Jun 29		Times Union
•	WASHINGTON CALLING		Jun 22		Scripps Howard News Service
•	How you can lead a greener life		Jun 9		The State (South Carolina)
•	Seven ways you can lead a greener life		Jun 9		Post-Bulletin
•	How you can lead a greener life		May 24		The News-Sentinel (Ft. Wayne)
•	The recycling riddle: Recycling makes sense in so many ways - and progress has been made – but still the rates lag.		Apr 20		The Philadelphia Inquirer
•	It's easy to be green: 15 things you can do to help save the planet		Apr 19		Redeye (of the Chicago Tribune)
•	The cool way to recycle		Mar 15		Montecito Journal
•	Yet another way Tufts is better than Harvard		Feb 20		The Tufts Daily
•	Rethinking Rubbish		Jan 24		6Degrees

2006

•	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
•	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
•	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
•	A pat on the back (letter in response to BPEC Op-ed)		Jul 3		Waste News
•	BPEC Op-ed		Jun 5		Waste News
•	Activists seek more details from NRC and BPEC		Apr 28		Resource Recycling

2005

CRI Press Releases
	Americans break record for beverage containers wasted		30-Dec-04

News Articles
	Solid Waste Beverage Container Waste Sets Record		6-Jan	Environment Reporter
	Is recycling fervor on the wane?		7-Jan	Associated Press
	Environmental Notebook: Letting it go to waste		12-Jan	Post-Standard
	Institute wants to reverse container trend		17-Jan	Waste News
	Experts lament state of container recycling		16-May	Plastics News
	Experts say it's not enough to throw that can in the bin		July	Half Moon Bay Review
	Groups diverge on best way to recycle		15-Aug	Waste News
	Beverage study negates single-serve theory		12-Sep	Waste News
	Beverage industry's initiative yields no proposals, CRI says		28-Nov	Plastics News
	Recycling coordinator wins national award		11-Dec	Columbia Missourian

Magazine Articles

	Litter things cost a lot by Pat Franklin (PDF, 300 kB)		1-Jul	Resource Recycling
	Drink and deposit by Jenny Gitlitz		Sept./Oct.	Waste Management World (UK)

2004

Trashing the Can: Decrease in Recycling Has Activists, Businesses Concerned. Boulder Daily Camera. November 14, 2004
Recycling rates are kicking our cans: The Benefits of Recycling at Home and at the Office. Grinning Planet. October 5, 2004
Recycling efforts dropping off: Matter of routine for some seems to have become old news for others. USA Today. July 7, 2004
Recycling Rates Dip. Waste Age. July, 2004
CRI Chides Beverage Industry on Slumping Recycling Levels .Recycling Today, May 25, 2004
An Idyll Interupted. LA Times, August 1, 2004
Is packaging waste off the radar? Food Engineering. March 1, 2004

2002

Senator Jeffords Introduces National Beverage Producer Responsibility Act
(April 22, 2002)
Coke and Pepsi Responsible for "Trashing America," Hurting Taxpayers and Environment(April 16, 2002)
Environmentalists Hail New Findings on Beverage Container Recycling [PDF, ~43Kb]
(January 16, 2002)
CRI's Statement on BEAR's Beverage Container Recycling Report [PDF, ~17Kb] (January 16, 2002)

2001

Coca-Cola Faces Recycling Challenge (April 2001)
Coca-Cola Shareholder Vote on Recycling 'Better Than Expected' (April 2001)
Coke and Pepsi Waste Targeted by Environmental Groups: Shareholder Campaign Launched to Increase Recycling (March 2001)
Coke Shareholders and Environmental Groups Urge Support for Recycling in Wall Street Journal Advertisement (March 2001)
Letters to the Editor: Recycling Redefined - Wall Street Journal (March 2001)

1999

Letters to the Editor: Shape of beer to come -New York Times (July 1999)
Letters to the Editor: Boston Globe (November 16, 1999)

1998

1997

Letters to the Editor: Why recycling is NOT garbage -Forbes Magazine

1996

Press Release: Container Recycling Institute Issues Beverage Industry Watch (March 1996)