According to a July 19, 2023 joint Container Recycling Institute (CRI) and Reloop news release https://www.container-recycling.org/images/2023/DRS%20Impact%20on%20Beverage%20Sales%20report%20final%20for%20website.pdf “… A study released today … finds no definitive evidence that new or expanded beverage container deposit return systems (DRS, aka bottle bills) alone impact beverage sales – suggesting beverage industry concerns that deposit systems lead to sales declines are unfounded ... Key findings include: None of the case studies provides definitive evidence suggesting that the introduction or expansion of a DRS caused a decline in beverage sales … Many complex and multifaceted factors contribute to changes in beverage sales, meaning any sales increases or decreases cannot only be attributed to deposit return systems … Some previous studies may be unreliable, especially those that used speculative approaches instead of actual historical data …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling #BottleBills @CRI_Recycle @reloop_platform
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
