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Hawaii recycles record 72% of beverage containers
Hawaii has announced the results of its beverage container recycling efforts for the fiscal year 2008, and the state increased recycling by four percent to reach 72 percent recovery, an all-time high. The state says this means more than 680 million containers were recycled from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. State law requires that if more than 70 percent of containers are recycled there would ...
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New York collects $120M in unclaimed bottle deposits
October 31st marks the one-year anniversary of the expansion of New York’s beverage container deposit law, known as the “Bottle Bill,” to include bottled water. While it is too early to measure the full benefits of the new law, state and national recycling advocates are hailing the first year as a success. “Consumers have adjusted easily to the expanded bottle bill and ...
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The Urgent Need to Fix California`s "Bottle Bill"
August 28th, 2018 – Recycling rates are falling in California. For the first time in a decade, the percentage of beverage containers being recycled has dropped below 80 percent. The decline means that about 1.7 million containers that five years ago were being recycled are today being buried in landfills or, worse, tossed aside as litter. Part of the problem is that California’s ...
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Alcoa Now Sole Owner of Evermore Recycling, The World Leader in Beverage Can Recycling
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced it has taken full control of Evermore Recycling, the undisputed leader in used beverage can (UBC) recycling, and is now operating as a wholly-owned entity of Alcoa. Alcoa and Novelis previously were partners in the joint venture which purchases more recycled cans than any other group anywhere in the world; Alcoa agreed in July to ...
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Environmental Products Corporation and Tomra Systems ASA Settle Antitrust Complaint Filed in November 2010
Environmental Products Corporation (Envipco), a subsidiary of Envipco Holding N.V., a publicly listed company on the Brussels Euronext Exchange (Symbol: ENV), Tomra Systems ASA, a publicly listed company on the Oslo Stock Exchange (Symbol: TOM) and Tomra of North America, Inc. (Tomra) have agreed to settle their antitrust lawsuit that was filed in November 2010 in federal court in Connecticut. ...
By ENVIPCO
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Aluminum Association Applauds New York Law to Encourage Sale of Aluminum Bottles
The Aluminum Association today applauded the New York State Legislature on its passage of a bill that will permit the sale of aluminum bottles in the state. The bill, just signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, reverses a little-known provision contained in the state's 1982 Bottle Bill that prohibits the sale of metal beverage containers that have detachable caps. Designed to discourage the sale of ...
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ThinkSocial & PepsiCo invite innovative companies and consumers to `join the #promise`
ThinkSocial at the Paley Center for Media, in conjunction with PepsiCo, is thrilled to announce the #Promise, an initiative that explores how social and mobile media are empowering corporate citizenship and creating social and environmental change. To debut the #Promise, ThinkSocial, together with PepsiCo, are hosting a one-day summit on June 10th as part of New York"s annual Internet Week and is ...
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Envipco Launches Innovative Compacting Technology in the European RVM Deposit Market
Envipco Holding N.V., apublic-listed company ontheBrusselsEuronextNYSE"ENV" and aglobal providerofrecycling systemsand solutionstothebeverage andretail industries, announcesthefirstcommercialorderofitsinnovativecompactor technology. Envipco Automaten GmbH, a subsidiary of Envipco Holding N.V., today received an order from a major German retail group for 500 compactors based on new breakthrough ...
By ENVIPCO
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Alcoa Shines Bright at Super Bowl XLVI
Alcoa (NYSE: AA) will be at Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday in Indianapolis, Ind., in more ways than one. The award-winning Lucas Oil Stadium, host site of the Super Bowl football game, features several products made by Alcoa’s Kawneer architectural aluminum products business. Alcoa Foundation is also contributing to the big game by helping the City of ...
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Recycling Our Way to Recovery
The following statement has been issued by Joseph Cattaneo, President, Glass Packaging Institute. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Over the past year, there have been promising signs that the United States is recovering from the so-called "Great Recession." In recent quarters, the country's Gross Domestic Product has been in positive territory. The housing market, though far from vibrant, has shown some modest ...
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Aluminum Can Extends Lead As Most Recycled Beverage Container
The U.S. recycling rate for aluminum beverage containers jumped seven percentage points, from 58.1 percent to 65.1 percent for 2011, the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced today. That means 61 billion cans were recycled in 2011, a milestone that marks solid progress toward the industry's goal of a 75 percent ...
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The Aluminum Association Supports America Recycles Day and Offers Challenge
The Aluminum Association supports America Recycles Day, tomorrow, November 15th and reminds everyone to recycle all the aluminum they use in their everyday lives. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable meaning it can be eternally recycled with no loss in quality. Aluminum's recyclability and durability mean that 75% of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today. Recycled aluminum requires ...
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Leading beverage container manufacturers agree-well-designed deposits are key to getting more containers back for recycling
By: Robert Budway, President, Can Manufacturers Institute, Darrel Collier, Executive Director, National Association for PET Container Resources and Scott DeFife, President, Glass Packaging Institute The glass, metal and plastic PET container industries agree that deposit systems lead to higher recycling rates, as well as better quality, higher value material enabling circularity. We support ...
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Alcoa Foundation Helps Score a Win for Sustainability at 2012 Super Bowl
A dedicated team has spent the weeks after last month’s Super Bowl tabulating the amount of materials recycled during the big game in Indianapolis – more than 144 tons, in fact. The Indiana Recycling Coalition (IRC), with financial support from the Alcoa Foundation, helped organize an effort to recycle materials at the Super Bowl and its numerous related ...
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Consumers’ preference for bottled water is growing and they want it available wherever drinks are sold
Alexandria, VA – More than 7 in 10 Americans (72 percent) say bottled water (still and/or sparkling) is among their most preferred non-alcoholic beverages – an increase of 9 percent over last year, according to a new national survey. Bottled water is the most preferred beverage, followed by coffee at 61 percent and soft drinks (regular and/or diet) at 59 percent. Nearly all Americans ...
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Central Basin Gets Greener With New Bottled Water
Central Basin Municipal Water District has improved its popular bottled water donation program by switching to bottles that are made from 100% recycled materials. The purified bottled water, which is produced locally in the City of Commerce, will be donated to cities and non-profit groups for community events. Since the 1990s, Central Basin's bottled water program has remained a popular and ...
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Alcoa & Alcoa Foundation Provide Recycling Tools to Help Americans Protect the Planet and Earn Cash in Recognition of America Recycles Day, November 15
Recycling is not only good for the planet, but good for your wallet too. According to the Aluminum Association, Americans earn nearly $1 billion a year from recycling aluminum cans, yet nearly another $1 billion worth of aluminum cans are still tossed into landfills. As national sponsors of America Recycles Day on November 15, Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation are ...
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Government accused of ‘dragging its feet’ over plastic bottle deposit scheme
The UK government has been accused of failing to recognise the urgency of tackling plastic pollution after giving no firm commitments on a deposit return scheme for beverage containers. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) had recommended such a scheme be introduced late last year in order to help improve the country’s floundering recycling rates for plastic bottles. However, ...
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US cities recycle over 190m aluminum cans during national challenge
The U.S. Conference of Mayors, Novelis Inc. and Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) have announced the winners in the fourth annual Cans for Cash: City Recycling Challenge at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 76th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. To encourage recycling, the program challenges like-sized cities to compete against each other in aluminum can collection for monetary awards. During ...
By Novelis Inc.
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US aluminium industry to recycle 75% of all cans by 2015
The Aluminum Association has announced an industry wide effort to increase the industry’s recycling rate for used aluminum beverage containers to 75% by 2015. Today, the aluminum industry recovers approximately 54% of the aluminum containers produced in the US. While aluminum cans are already the most widely recycled beverage container in the country, each year Americans still discard over 50 ...
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