Consumer Watchdog: Failure of Bottle Deposit Program Costing Californians 750,000 Tons of Greenhouse Gases, Equivalent of Putting More Than 160,000 New Cars on the Road
December 06, 2021
December 06, 2021
LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 6 (TNSOps) -- Consumer Watchdog issued the following news release:
Inattention to California's bottle deposit program is dramatically growing the state's carbon footprint, according to analysis by the Container Recycling Institute (CRI).
The CRI analysis shows that the state's low bottle and can recycling rate of traditional deposit and non-deposit beverage containers - a mere 58% - means an estimated 13.4 billion bottles and . . .
Inattention to California's bottle deposit program is dramatically growing the state's carbon footprint, according to analysis by the Container Recycling Institute (CRI).
The CRI analysis shows that the state's low bottle and can recycling rate of traditional deposit and non-deposit beverage containers - a mere 58% - means an estimated 13.4 billion bottles and . . .