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 [...]
April 17, 2010 Original PRWeb article: On Earth Day and Every Day, Native Waters offers Earth-Friendly… – 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 [...]
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 [...]
New Study Gives “Green” Light to PET Bottles over Glass or Aluminum 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 [...]
