Glass, Metal & Plastic Containers Team
This team focuses on solutions for discarded containers (e.g., from beverages). Potential solutions include deposit legislation, recovery of material for new bottles and containers, and development of small companies (“cottage industries”) that make niche objects of from recycled materials.
Staff Liaisons:
About the Bottle Bill
Bottle Bill will give life to recycling and landfills on Puerto Rico
The president of an institute that investigates and educates about recycling said this week, that the Puertorican "Bottle bill", in which consumers are taxed five cents for each recycled bottle, and that can be reimbursed later at a center, will help raise the recycling levels and extend life to landfills... Read more here
Document: El impacto económico y ambiental de los depósitos reembolsables sobre envases para bebidas en Puerto Rico
The president of an institute that investigates and educates about recycling said this week, that the Puertorican "Bottle bill", in which consumers are taxed five cents for each recycled bottle, and that can be reimbursed later at a center, will help raise the recycling levels and extend life to landfills... Read more here
Document: El impacto económico y ambiental de los depósitos reembolsables sobre envases para bebidas en Puerto Rico
Recycling Refund Legislation
Recycling Refund Legislation Proposed
To view a copy of this legislation, click here.
Note: The development of container recycling legislation is a key objective of the PRRP Integrated Solid Waste Management Strategy available here.
Written testimony given at the hearings for House Bill #2141
By José Manuel Torres del PRRP
Addressed to the Hon. César Hernández Alfonzo
Date: February 2, 2015
Read Lecture here
P.Point presentation here
DEPOSIT-RETURN RESOURCES
Informative Documents
Report: Waste and Opportunity 2015: Environmental Progress and Challenges in Food,
Beverage, and Consumer Goods Packaging
"As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council distributed a survey to learn
more about packaging environmental attributes and end-of-life policies at 47 quick
service restaurants and beverage, consumer packaged goods, and grocery companies.
Our survey and related research were designed to recognize initiatives taken by
companies to use environmentally preferable materials in manufacturing packaging, to
use high levels of recycled content, to design materials to be recycled or composted,
and to encourage proactive policies and practices that would significantly increase
recycling or composting of post consumer packaging." Read more here.
Beverage, and Consumer Goods Packaging
"As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council distributed a survey to learn
more about packaging environmental attributes and end-of-life policies at 47 quick
service restaurants and beverage, consumer packaged goods, and grocery companies.
Our survey and related research were designed to recognize initiatives taken by
companies to use environmentally preferable materials in manufacturing packaging, to
use high levels of recycled content, to design materials to be recycled or composted,
and to encourage proactive policies and practices that would significantly increase
recycling or composting of post consumer packaging." Read more here.
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
Bottle Tour
Documenting and promoting reusable containers, avoiding the generation of waste. Promoting Recycling and Zero Waste.
Documenting and promoting reusable containers, avoiding the generation of waste. Promoting Recycling and Zero Waste.
