Closed-loop, bottle-to-bottle recycling is taking a big leap forward in a Canadian town called Shelburne, some 60 miles north of Toronto.
That’s where Ice River Springs, a bottled water company headquartered in Feversham, Ontario, is converting an industrial building into a PET recycling plant. This makes Ice River Springs the first bottled water company in North America to self-manufacture its own resin.
April 17, 2010
– Perceived as a healthy alternative to bottled soft drinks and other beverages, bottled water is now the second largest bottled-beverage sold in the U.S. market, representing more than 8.7 billion gallons of water. Yet only 30% of all PET plastic bottles are recycled, leaving 70% of these bottles in landfills or incinerators.
If asked, most of us would agree that recycling is the right thing to do. From a logical point of view it makes perfect sense to reuse the earth’s precious limited resources as many times as possible before disposing them into the abyss of our landfills. I grew up during the 70’s and remember quite fondly the recycling efforts from the campaigns of “Don’t be a Litter Bug” and the American Indian shedding a tear while overlooking the polluted landscape. Those TV commercials ingrained in me the message to leave everywhere I go cleaner than how I found it.
New York, NY (April 6, 2010)– A newly released life-cycle inventory of single-serving soda containers concludes that PET plastic bottles offer a better environmental footprint than aluminum cans or glass bottles by using less energy, generating less solid waste, and creating significantly fewer greenhouse gases.
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Rotaract is dedicated to making the world a better place, but might see the world from a slightly different perspective than Rotary. Rotaractors are between the ages of 18 and 30, and are typically very early in their careers. Although still fresh to the professional world, they are future leaders in business, politics and the community. Continue reading
Atlanta based, Liquid Promotions, now carries ENSO’s biodegradable bottle. Liquid Promotions can offer your business a wide array of water bottle labels on a classy sleek eco-friendly bottle that contains refreshing spring water from mountains of North Georgia.
Learn more at: http://www.customlabeledbottledwater.com/home
The best way to highlight your company’s environmental commitments is to bring them into the spotlight. We’re guessing that’s the motive behind Nike’s move to make this summer’s World Cup shirts out of recycled plastic bottles. The shirts will be worn by all nine Nike-sponsored teams, including England, Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV —– Hamilton, Ohio, 2009 defending champion Best US Tap Water topped a pair of Canadian waters to win undisputed Best Tap Water in the World at the 20th annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting. “This U.S. win over Canada makes it even more apt that we’re known as the Olympics of Water,” said Jill Klein Rone, longtime producer of the water tasting. As with last year, judges again commented that Hamilton’s water was “sweet.”
You hear a lot about how horrible bottled water is and I’ve been wondering lately, “Are there any good things about bottled water?” Well, it turns out that the lowly water bottle might just be the little hero that saved the day. You know the type, the one who everyone dislikes until they step forward and perform a heroic feat. And a heroic feat they indeed performed.
Plastic has become an important aspect in our lives, can you imagine what kind of care you would get in a hospital if we didn’t have plastic? Some historians are saying that this age will be known as the plastic age. The next time you go to the store take a look around and see if you can find products that don’t have plastic. As important as plastic is to our lives it has also demonstrated some negative side effects and there isn’t any one perfect answer for solving plastic pollution.