by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jul 20, 2022 | Eco-friendly consumer, Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Sustainable design
Despite an onslaught of disingenuous marketing by most packaging manufacturers, a technique environmentalists refer to as greenwashing, consumers these days are increasingly more aware that “eco-friendly” claims or “100% recyclable” promises...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jul 7, 2022 | Eco-friendly consumer, Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Recycling
“The U.S. produces 234 pounds of plastic waste per person per year, and hardly any of it gets recycled” A look beyond the marketing claims of most plastic manufacturers begs a deeper question: ask not whether plastic products are recyclable, ask whether...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jan 3, 2022 | Eco-friendly consumer, Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Recycling
PR / Boston, Massachusetts (January, 2022) — Riding momentum from the launch of a formal, state-wide plastic can carrier Reuse & Recycle Initiative in May, Metro Boston and the rest of Massachusetts has seen a measurable uptick in the reuse and recycling...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Oct 31, 2021 | Eco beer news, Eco-friendly consumer, Featured blogs, Packaging materials
Pilot program in Metro Burlington to offer collection locations where consumers return the durable plastic packaging for breweries to reuse PR / Burlington, Vermont (November, 2021) — Millions of plastic can carriers end up in the hands of Vermont’s craft beer and...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jul 23, 2021 | Eco beer news, Eco-friendly consumer, Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Recycling, Sustainable design
PLANET EARTH – Craft beverage producers are increasingly ditching plastic can carriers in favor of more environmentally conscious options. Among the most cited reasons are that single-use plastic packaging has proven surprisingly difficult to recycle, and the...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jul 13, 2021 | Eco-friendly consumer, Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Recycling
PR / Metro Boston (July, 2021) — An initiative aimed at decreasing the millions of plastic can carriers that end up going to landfill or incineration each year in Massachusetts reached its first milestone last week with the successful completion of a Metro Boston...
