by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Jun 9, 2021 | Eco-friendly consumer, Packaging materials, Recycling
PR / Connecticut (June, 2021) – The Connecticut General Assembly’s passage of a bill to upgrade the state’s beverage container deposit law (aka bottle bill) – the most significant bottle bill expansion legislation passed in the U.S. in about a decade – marks a major...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 27, 2021 | Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Recycling
PR / Massachusetts (April, 2021) — It’s estimated* that at least 10 million new plastic can carriers are used annually by breweries in Massachusetts, with just 10% of them being collected and re-used, and less than 2% of them ever getting recycled. As a result, the...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Apr 19, 2021 | Featured blogs, Packaging materials, Recycling
Despite the manufacturer’s marketing claims, rigid plastic can carriers and plastic film six-pack rings are NOT curbside recyclable in Massachusetts and most other states. This has been verified by the RecycleSmart website, an initiative of the Massachusetts...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Mar 25, 2021 | Packaging materials
PR / Barcelona (March, 2021) — Damm, a leading beverage company in Spain, and a major player in the food, hospitality, logistics and distribution industries, has achieved ASI (Aluminium Stewardship Initiative) Performance Standard and Chain of Custody Standard...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Feb 19, 2021 | Packaging materials, Sustainable design
Make “throwaway go away” if you care about the planet, environmental groups say PR / Planet Earth (February, 2021) – As government representatives from 193 countries prepare to discuss “Strengthening Actions for Nature”[1], 188 environmental groups from around...
by Eco-Friendly Beer Drinker | Feb 6, 2021 | Packaging materials, Recycling
Legislators from Nine States Announce Coordinated Effort to Hold Plastic Packaging Producers Responsible PR / Washington, D.C. (February, 2021) – Today state legislators from nine states announced a coordinated effort to hold producers responsible for the end-of-life...
