Transcript ICC Data and Bottle Bills - Container Recycling Institute

Plastic Debris – Rivers to Sea
Redondo Beach, California
September 7-9, 2005
Pat Franklin
Executive Director
Container Recycling Institute
Stopping Plastic Beverage
Bottle Debris at the Source
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Introducing…the one-way,
throwaway can . . . 1930
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FACT: There were no plastic beverage
bottles in the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s,
and very few in the 1970’s and 80’s.
FACT: In 2005 Americans will drain
more than 50 billion single-serving PET
plastic beverage bottles . . . an
estimated 40 billion will end up
landfilled or littered..
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Beverage Container Sales: 1973-2003
(in billions)
Container Type
1973 1983 1993 2003
Aluminum cans
10
56
94
100
Glass bottles
25
32
32
36
PET Plastic Bottles
--
4
9
48
TOTAL
35
92
135
184
Sources: Aluminum Association,Glass Packaging Institute, US EPA, US Department of Commerce,
American Plastics Council, Beverage Marketing Corporation.
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PET Carbonated Soft Drink Bottle
Sales: 1992 - 2004
Billions of Units
30
23.7
25
28.0
2002
2004E
18.7
20
15
25.6
27.8
12.0
12.8
10
5
0
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
Source: American Plastics Council
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PET Bottled Water Sales in the U.S.
(billions of units)
20
16
12
8
4
0
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Includes domestic and imported non-sparkling water in plastic bottles of 1.5 liters or
less. Data derived from the Beverage Marketing Corporation. Note: CRI estimated
1997 and 1998 imports.
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A moment of refreshment
. . . an eternity of waste!
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Hawai’i 2002
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A stream in Maryland 2005
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Beverage Container Debris Picked up
during 2004 International Coastal Cleanup
# of Items
928,580
1,000,000
800,000
600,000
339,841
400,000
199,804
189,832
209,075
200,000
0
Glass Bottles
Aluminum
Plastic Bottles Caps & Lids
Cans
Source: 2004 International Coastal Cleanup, The Ocean Conservancy
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All Beverage
Container
Debris
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Beverage Containers as Percent of Total Debris
Collected: 2004 International Coastal Cleanup
928,580
2,433,930
28%
72%
Bev Cont Debris
All Marine Debris
Source: 2004 International Coastal Cleanup, The Ocean Conservancy
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Plastic Beverage Bottles as a Percent of
Total Debris: Potomac Watershed Cleanup
2004
The 108,575 recyclable
plastic bottles (10,000
pounds) collected
during the 2004 spring
cleanup accounted for
30% of all bagged
trash collected.
Plastic Beverage Bottles
All other Debris
30%
70%
Source: Alice Ferguson Foundation, 2005
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Beverage Containers as a Percent of
Waterway Debris in Kentucky: 2000
Beverage containers, carriers,
tops and pull tabs represented
50% of total waterway debris in
SWaCK Study
Beverage Containers
Carriers, tops, pull tabs
Snack food
Tobacco related
Take out
Toiletries
Accidental
21%
44%
3%
44%
16%
4%
6%
6%
Source: Litter in Kentucky, A View from the Field, Solid Waste Coordinators of
Kentucky (SWaCK) 2000.
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How can we reduce beverage
container debris in waterways?
 Litter taxes
 Recycling programs
 Container deposit laws
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Litter Taxes
Litter taxes fund litter
pickups and public
relations campaigns…
an approach that’s like
mopping up the floor
while the sink is
overflowing, instead of
turning the spigot off.
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After 35 years
and millions of
dollars in
public relations
campaign
expenses……
Iron Eyes Cody
is still crying!
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Recycling Programs
Bin there…done that!
Despite tremendous
growth of curbside
recycling in the 1990’s
beverage container
debris has actually
increased.
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Curbside Recycling has not Curbed
Beverage Container Coastal Debris
60%
50%
40%
% of U.S. Population w/
Curbside Recycling
Bev Cont as % of Total
Coastal Debris
30%
20%
10%
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96
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92
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90
0%
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Sources: Ocean Conservancy, U.S. Bureau of the Census,
BioCycle. * Note: 2000 curbside access rate is an estimate
based on prior year.
Estimate
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Container Deposit Laws
Oregon
Vermont
Michigan
Maine
Iowa
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Delaware
New York
California
Hawaii
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Litter Reduction After Passage of
Container Deposit Legislation
State and
Source of Data
New York (Temp
Beverage Container
Litter Reduction
Total Litter
Reduction
70-80%
30%
83%
47%
76%
35%
69-77%
34-64%
84%
41%
76%
39%
State Commission
1985)
Oregon (OR DEQ
1982)
Vermont (US GAO
1977)
Maine (US GAO
1980)
Michigan (MI DOT
1979)
Iowa (IA DOT 1980)
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Beverage Containers as a Percent of
Coastal Debris in States with no CDL
2004
50%
45%
40%
35%
18%: national
average
30%
11%: average
in CDL states
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
FL
GA
HI
IL
IN
LA
MD
MN
MO
NE
NJ
NC
OH
RI
SC
TX
VA
WA
WI
Source: CRI calculations based on 2004 International Coastal Cleanup data
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Beverage Containers as a Percent of
Coastal Debris in States with CDL
2004
 Michigan, with a 10-cent
deposit, has the lowest
percentage of beverage
container litter of all
eleven CDL states
 With the exception of
New York, all 7 CDL states
were well below the
national average of 18%
OR
NY
National
MI
Avg. 18%
ME
MA
No CDL
CT
Avg. 22%
CA
0%
10%
20%
30%
Source: CRI calculations based on 2004 International Coastal Cleanup data
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Beverage Bottle & Can Debris Collected during
International Coastal Cleanup in U.S.
(1996, 1998, 2000 & 2004)
CDL States
National Average
Non CDL States
25%
22%
20%
18%
15%
13%
13%
11%
10%
10%
11%
8%
10%
6%
6%
5%
5%
0%
1996
1998
2000
2004
Source: CRI calculations based on date from the International Coastal Cleanup
Note: 2004 data for states that collected more than 5,000 total items CA, CT, FL, GA, HI,IL, IN, LA, ME, MD, MA,
MI, MN,MO, NE, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WA, WI, Guam, PR,VI,
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Refundable Deposits Work
 They provide a
disincentive to litter.
 They provide an
incentive to recycle
and to pick up bottles
and cans that are
littered
 They stop litter at the
source.
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We can do something about
beverage container debris today!
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They will thank us tomorrow!
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