Beer Nut: Few plastic beer can carriers being recycled
Beer Nut: Few plastic beer can carriers being recycled Today 8:18 AM Rob’s email was an eye-opener. According to estimates from data collected by the Mass. Brew Bros. in discussions with Massachusetts breweries, officials from recycling groups, and the state’s largest waste management companies, 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. This means that they end up glutting the state’s landfills. As a craft beer drinker and big fan o...
Source: masslive.com