GRRN Campaigns

Upper Midwest Beverage Container Take-Back Campaign
GRRN starts 2003 with new resources to explore the possibility of beverage producer responsibility initiatives at the state level. Our Wisconsin campaign aims to enact effective statewide legislation where producers are financially responsible for recovering, for re-use or recycling, 80 percent or more of the beverage containers sold in the state.

National Deposit Bill
The National Beverage Producer Responsibility Act provides a new approach to container recycling that addresses concerns of the industry stakeholders without compromising the public interest. The Act sets a performance standard (80% recovery, the level currently achieved in most of the 10 bottle bill states) which industry must meet, but allows industry the freedom to design the most efficient deposit-return program to reach the standard.

Coke & Pepsi Campaign [archived]
Both Coke and Pepsi spend millions of dollars opposing deposit-refund systems, yet they have no solution to offer. They’d rather let taxpayers pay billions to clean up after them than take responsibility for their waste. And both Coke and Pepsi are dragging their feet in living up to their promises to use 25 percent recycled content in their plastic bottles when they were switching from glass a decade ago.

Beverage Take-Back Resources