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Waste and Opportunity 2015Consumer Packaging — January 28th 2015 Waste and Opportunity 2015, a new report from As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes an in-depth look at the packaging practices of 47 fast food chains, beverage companies, and consumer goods, highlighting leaders and laggards in the field. |
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Unfinished Business: The Case for Extended Producer Responsibility for Post-Consumer PackagingConsumer Packaging — July 8th 2012 In Unfinished Business: The Case for Extended Producer Responsibility for Post-Consumer Packaging, As You Sow describes how extended producer responsibility would boost the U.S. packaging recycling rates and transform how recycling is funded. |
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Waste & Opportunity: U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and ReportConsumer Packaging — April 3rd 2011 As You Sow’s third scorecard and report on beverage container recycling evaluates new and ongoing efforts by beverage producers to reduce source materials, create recyclable product packaging, and increase container recovery rates. |
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Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on BPABisphenol A — July 8th 2010 This report by Green Century and As You Sow builds on the first edition of Seeking Safer Packaging, published in April 2009, which ranked food and beverage companies on their efforts to address BPA in their product packaging. In this edition, the number of companies analyzed has expanded to include major U.S. retail companies that sell private-label canned products. |
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Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on BPABisphenol A — July 12th 2009 Seeking Safer Packaging, published in April 2009, ranks food and beverage companies on their efforts to address BPA in their product packaging. Consumers, the media, and public officials alike are becoming increasingly concerned about bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine-disrupting chemical used in hard clear plastic and can linings. |
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Waste & Opportunity: U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and ReportConsumer Packaging — July 8th 2008 The 2008 Waste and Opportunity Report is based primarily on responses to As You Sow’s Beverage Container Recycling Survey, which was sent to 23 beverage companies and on publicly available information from websites and corporate social responsibility reports. Seven companies responded to the survey. |
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Waste & Opportunity: U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and ReportConsumer Packaging — July 8th 2006 This report identifies efforts by beverage producers to use more recycled content in their containers, to increase recovery and recycling, and to reduce material use. Twelve leading beverage companies received the survey and five companies responded to the survey. All twelve companies were evaluated by using publicly available information from websites and annual reports, and on the basis of survey responses. |
