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Businesses
and Environmentalists Allied for Recycling (BEAR) is a unique alliance
of businesses, recyclers, environmentalists and other stakeholders
working to maximize the recycling of beverage containers. In 1999,
only 41 percent of beverage containers were recycled, amounting
to the annual disposal of 114.4 billion beverage containers (7.7
million tons). Aluminum can recycling rates dropped from a peak
of 65 percent in 1992 to 55 percent in 1999, the lowest level in
the last decade. PET bottles were only recycled at a 20 percent
rate. Bear's goal is to increase the national recycling rate of
all beverage containers 80 percent. The BEAR project embodies GG
USA's mission of working as a mediator, facilitator, and catalyst
to eliminate waste, support sustainable businesses and jobs, and
protect the environment.
The BEAR Pledge
BEAR Members
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The
Multi-Stakeholder Recovery Project (MSRP) is one of Bear's central
efforts to move towards its 80% recycling goal. In this project,
stakeholders from throughout the beverage and recycling value chain
are working together on a Task
Force to identify innovative strategies to increase beverage
container recycling consistent with a set of eleven guiding principles.
The foundation for the effort is a Value Chain Analysis documenting
the costs and benefits of alternative recovery programs, prepared
by a consulting team comprised of R.W. Beck, Franklin Associates
Ltd., The Tellus Institute and Sound Resource Management.
Link
to more information on the MSRP
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BEAR and MSRP News
Coverage
BEAR and
MSRP Issued Press Releases
Press
Releases from other Organizations (related to BEAR and/or the MSRP)
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For
more information please contact Global
Green USA.
Phone:
310-394-7700
Email: ggusa@globalgreen.org
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Last
Updated - March 11, 2002
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