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...
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 21, 2021 | Eco beer news, Featured blogs, Recycling
Any brewery packaging beer in rigid plastic can carriers or plastic film rings should have a formal take-back program acknowledging that they are NOT curbside recyclable and encouraging consumers to return them to a brewery for re-use or proper recycling. A successful...
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...
