(c) Copyright 2007 by Ron Wagner
This may come as a surprise… but the sale of bottled
water has had a meteoric growth.
What happens to those plastic bottles?
Unfortunately, bottled water is being consumed…on the go.
What happens when you finish your water…well first thought
if there is no deposit on the container, out it goes in the
trash!
Wrong move.
Lets stand back and take a longer look at this from a
different perspective. Water is really not pushed
commercially as the carbonated soft drinks are…and with
low ad budgets, they are second only to the soft drink
industry, and the beverages being consumed.
Without a deposit requirement a lot of the plastic bottles
end up in landfill.
The general population seems to have become immune to
keeping waste water bottles out of trash containers.
Want more bad news?… people think because something is
plastic, we can recycle it.
It’s a real shame how the public puts it’s own selfish needs
in front of what we call common sense!
It’s like the people who expect dirty greasy–used paper
plates to be recycled. Oh yes…and by the way…
“All plastics are not created equal!”
As a recycling center…the business is here to recycle and
make a profit.
We must have companies lined up that will buy the recycleable
discards. If we can’t find a home for it…(that is somebody
who will pay for it)…it ends up in landfill. Too bad!
The single serve beverage containers such as soda, juices
and water, have challenged the recycle industry as many of
the beverages are consumed away from home and not recycled.
Local government bears the burden of this huge increase of
packaged beverage container losses. And there are
environmental repercussions no matter what happens to the
beverage container after they’re used.
Single serve beverage containers will continue to challenge
customer intent about keeping thase beverage containers out
of landfills.
Would you believe ’There’s a huge demand for recycling
feedstock”.
It all depends on what the consumer does or puts them after
the fact!
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The smiling cashier, at Alpco Recycling wants everyone to
help and work at keeping our world beautiful, for our
children and grandchildren. Read more at
http://www.smilingcashier.wordpress.com
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