Pepsi's new bottle highlights need for recycling policies

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Just put up a Humphrey post on recycling and Pepsi's new bio-based plastic bottles.

As always, it is important for policy makers to ask how they can enable citizens and businesses to achieve both of the goals of sustainability. Pepsi's new bio-bottles highlight one of the questions facing policy makers: what can be done to make the use of recycled materials more appealing to manufacturers? My question to policies makers is, what can be done to make it cheaper for manufacturers to use recycled materials?

Read the whole post at the Policy Catalyst.

2015-12-29 Update

The Policy Catalyst Blog is no longer on the Internet. The above link to the blog post has been updated to the Internet Archive.

bio-plastics, environmental economics, recycling
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