Links

Grass Roots Recycling Network

Their mission is to eliminate the waste of natural and human resources -- to achieve Zero Waste. They utilize strategies to achieve corporate accountability for waste and public policies to eliminate waste, and to build sustainable communities.

Container Recycling Institute

A nonprofit organization that studies the social and environmental costs associated with manufacturing, recycling, and disposal of container and packaging waste. They play a vital role in educating policy makers, government officials and the general public regarding the social and environmental impacts of the production and disposal of no-deposit, no-return beverage containers and the need for producers to take responsibility for their wasteful packaging.

Berkeley Ecology Center's Plastics Task Force

Lots of information on the problems with plastic beverage containers including: There is a link between the promotion of plastic recycling and the increase in the manufacturing of plastic containers from virgin materials. Plastic packaging production in recent years has outstripped plastic recycling by as much as a six to one-margin, and most of that production is from virgin materials. Although all plastic containers bear the recyclable symbol, most are not recyclable. Picking up plastics at curbside costs about $800 of taxpayer money or more per ton. Much of the plastic collected for recycling is shipped overseas, and processed under, at best, dubious conditions. Many of the products made from the plastic resin that is being recycled are not themselves recyclable, making the "recycling" only temporary diversion from landfill.