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Not kidding. Today I received an anonymous message from a group called the Transparency Collective. I guess they failed to notice the irony.
September 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not kidding. Today I received an anonymous message from a group called the Transparency Collective. I guess they failed to notice the irony.
47% fewer littered caps! This was AFTER a previous 80% reduction in the number of littered bottles, due to implementation of DRS. www.packaginginsights.com/news/tethere...
One year on: Tethered caps reduce litter and reshape beverage bottle design
A year since the implementation of tethered caps, KHS highlights how design experience is central to bottle top innovation, while Zwerfinator, a Netherlands-based environmental activist group, reports...
www.packaginginsights.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
47% fewer littered caps! This was AFTER a previous 80% reduction in the number of littered bottles, due to implementation of DRS. www.packaginginsights.com/news/tethere...
Ireland’s recycling rate for plastic bottles and aluminium and steel cans has jumped from 49% to 91% since the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme. Of this, 76% is directly captured via the DRS, with an additional 15% collected through mixed dry recycling. re-turn.ie/re-turn-2024...
Re-turn 2024 Annual Report - Re-Turn
Deposit Return Scheme surpasses 1.6 billion as Irish people now recycle 798 million more containers annually.
re-turn.ie
August 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ireland’s recycling rate for plastic bottles and aluminium and steel cans has jumped from 49% to 91% since the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme. Of this, 76% is directly captured via the DRS, with an additional 15% collected through mixed dry recycling. re-turn.ie/re-turn-2024...
Fantastic recycling rates for glass in EU! Note that they use dedicated, separate collection containers in most places to collect glass -- it's not mixed with other materials. www.packaginginsights.com/news/eu-glas...
EU glass collection rates climb as countries improve recycling infrastructure and consumer awareness
Glass collection recycling rates are increasing across the EU, with previously underperforming countries improving their national glass collection streams, according to the latest data from Close the ...
www.packaginginsights.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fantastic recycling rates for glass in EU! Note that they use dedicated, separate collection containers in most places to collect glass -- it's not mixed with other materials. www.packaginginsights.com/news/eu-glas...
Seem slike a lot of money....$450 billion...
www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemica...
www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemica...
Chemical recycling will require $453B to become competitive, Bain study says
Recycling polyolefins via pyrolysis twice as expensive as producing virgin polymers in Europe, says a new report.
www.plasticsnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Seem slike a lot of money....$450 billion...
www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemica...
www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemica...
Ugh. Pepsi is going backwards on its "target" on 20% reusable packaging. www.packaginginsights.com/news/pepsico...
PepsiCo’s reusable packaging rethink stirs waste management debate
PepsiCo has scrapped its 20% reusable packaging by 2030 target. Instead, the beverage giant will now follow a broader agenda aimed at 97% of its packaging being reusable, recyclable, or compostable by...
www.packaginginsights.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Ugh. Pepsi is going backwards on its "target" on 20% reusable packaging. www.packaginginsights.com/news/pepsico...
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U.S. aluminum beverage can waste is sky-high.
CRI's new report - "Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling - explains why, & provides data-based strategies to change this.
Read the report: www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
CRI's new report - "Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling - explains why, & provides data-based strategies to change this.
Read the report: www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
U.S. aluminum beverage can waste is sky-high.
CRI's new report - "Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling - explains why, & provides data-based strategies to change this.
Read the report: www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
CRI's new report - "Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling - explains why, & provides data-based strategies to change this.
Read the report: www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
Walmart had a goal of using 17% recycled content in their own ("private-brand") plastic packaging by 2025. Instead, they increased their use from 7% in 2021 to 8% in 2023. www.wastedive.com/news/walmart...
Walmart says it’s unlikely to meet 2025 plastic, recycling targets
The largest U.S. retailer discussed challenges to increasing PCR adoption. More than two-thirds of its global private-brand packaging was recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable in 2023, acco...
www.wastedive.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Walmart had a goal of using 17% recycled content in their own ("private-brand") plastic packaging by 2025. Instead, they increased their use from 7% in 2021 to 8% in 2023. www.wastedive.com/news/walmart...
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A new CRI report shows that implementation of a national beverage container deposit return system (#DRS, aka #bottlebill) would raise the aluminum used beverage can (UBC) recycling rate to 85%– an increase of 48 percentage points over the rate in 2021. www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
Aluminum UBCs
CRI is the model organization instrumental in bringing about a rapid increase in recycling for a world where no material is wasted, and the environment is protected. We succeed because companies and p...
www.container-recycling.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A new CRI report shows that implementation of a national beverage container deposit return system (#DRS, aka #bottlebill) would raise the aluminum used beverage can (UBC) recycling rate to 85%– an increase of 48 percentage points over the rate in 2021. www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
150 people attended "Deposit Return Scheme Day" in Tehran, Iran last week. www.tehrantimes.com/news/510204/...
Deposit Return Scheme Day held in Tehran
TEHRAN – The University of Tehran has held an event titled “Deposit Return Scheme Day” aimed to raise awareness about combating plastic pollution and recycling single-use beverage containers.
www.tehrantimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
150 people attended "Deposit Return Scheme Day" in Tehran, Iran last week. www.tehrantimes.com/news/510204/...
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NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
February 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
Ready, fire, blame! Someone ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release water at a rate that would have caused flooding. Mind you, that's water that needs to be stored now so it can be used later to water crops in the central valley when the hot, dry summer comes.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials.
www.politico.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ready, fire, blame! Someone ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release water at a rate that would have caused flooding. Mind you, that's water that needs to be stored now so it can be used later to water crops in the central valley when the hot, dry summer comes.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
So sad to hear that our favorite hiking spot in LA burned down. The Will Rogers historic buildings were such a gem. There were historic photographs and movies in the little museum....https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
January 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So sad to hear that our favorite hiking spot in LA burned down. The Will Rogers historic buildings were such a gem. There were historic photographs and movies in the little museum....https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346