Kenosha, WI – America’s leading beverage companies and their environmental and sustainability partners announced today that the city of Kenosha is the latest locale selected for investment under Every Bottle Back, a breakthrough initiative to improve the collection and recycling of plastic bottles.
The $520,000 investment will help more than 32,000 households convert from an outdated plastic bag recycling system to 96-gallon, curbside recycling carts. This modernization will support the automation of recycling collection so that carts will be lifted and dumped into trucks via an automated arm, upgrading from the city’s current labor intensive, manual collection of bags.
Currently,
Kenosha’s recyclable materials are sent to a materials recovery facility
(MRF) that does not accept bagged recyclables, resulting in unnecessary
landfilling of valuable materials, including recyclable plastic
bottles. Over the next 10 years, this investment is estimated to yield
54 million pounds of new recyclables, including 2.1 million new pounds of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)...
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