Beer Nut: Boston can carrier recycling program a success

I just read an uplifting article on ecofriendlybeer.com about how a pilot program for recycling plastic can carriers from the beer industry was completed successfully in Massachusetts.

The eight-week program, conducted in the metro Boston area, saw nearly 20,000 plastic carriers turned in by consumers and breweries. The carriers have proved to be problematic for curbside recycling by the state, so the idea is to prevent the carriers from ending up in landfills, or worse, polluting the environment.

I wrote about this initiative back in April, mentioning the eye-opening statistic that at least 10 million new plastic beer can carriers are used annually by breweries in Massachusetts, with just 10% of them being collected and reused, and less than 2% of them ever getting recycled.

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