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Ice River Springs is a private label bottled water producer for retailers and food service operators and manufacturer of the Ice River Green brand of bottled water. The company runs a plastic recycling operation, Blue Mountain Plastics (BMP), that takes bottles collected by municipalities and produces food grade recycled PETE for its water bottles.
The lifecycle carbon footprint for a half litre of small pack bottled water is 111 grams CO 2 equivalent. [35] By comparison, the same sized PET plastic-bottled soft drink produces 240 grams CO 2 equivalent. Soft drink bottles require much thicker plastic due to carbonation, and therefore many more grams of CO 2 equivalent.
Coca-Cola is committed to collecting and recycling plastic bottles rather than switching to aluminium cans as the world's largest soft drinks maker seeks to reduce its carbon footprint, its chief ...
Globally, this is by far the most common form of recycling and in many countries it is the only type practised. It is the simplest and most economical technique. It has a lower carbon footprint than other processes. [86] However, several factors can reduce output quality, which limits its applicability. [86]
In June, they announced that for their latest world tour they’d reduced their carbon footprint by an estimated stunning 59%, compared to their last global tour. And they weren’t alone.
Lara Seaver, Reverb’s director of touring and projects, says many venues just need that extra push to do away with COVID policies that lead to excess plastic usage, for example.