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CRI: Zero Beverage Container Waste Campaign

Millions of consumers who recycle every day think that because they recycle their bottles and cans, everyone else is recycling too. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Americans waste (landfill, incinerate, or litter) twice as many beverage containers as we recycle.

In 2006, more than 138 billion beverage bottles and cans were not recycled. Nationwide, that’s about 460 per capita - up from 300 per capita just a decade ago, and this trend of increased wasting is expected to continue.

There is a great environmental cost to replacing billions of wasted bottles and cans with new containers made from virgin materials: in terms of pollution, energy squandered, and habitats disrupted by mining, drilling, and other industrial activities.

In an effort to reverse this wasting trend and make beverage consumption more sustainable, CRI is launching a campaign called 2020 Vision: Setting Our Sights on Zero Beverage Container Waste.

Follow the links to learn more about beverage container waste in the United States, and about CRI's campaign to achieve Zero Beverage Container Waste--or pretty darn close to zero!

• All about Beverage Container Waste
• Beverage Container Recycling
• What is the Zero Beverage Container Waste Campaign?
• How Can We Achieve Zero Beverage Container Waste?
• Join the Campaign!
• Zero Waste Links

• Zero Waste Alliance
• Zero Waste International Alliance
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
• Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives
• Grassroots Recycling Network and their GreenYes! mailing list

List of Zero Waste Links

• ACT NOWaste (Canberra)
• California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA)
• Container Recycling Institute
• Eco-Cycle (Boulder, Colorado)
• Footprint Environmental Strategies (British Columbia)
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

• Grassroots Recycling Network and their GreenYes! mailing list

• Institute for Zero Waste in Africa (informational newsletter: PDF, 303KB)

• Recycle This! (New York)

• Recycling Advisory Group Scotland
• Southwest Network for Zero Waste
• Zero Waste Alliance
• Zero Waste International Alliance
• Zero Waste America
• Zero Waste Israel
• Zero Waste Kovalam
• Zero Waste New Zealand

• Zero Waste North (British Columbia)