Breweries make push to recycle those plastic beer can carriers
By: Chris Conte
and last updated 2021-05-20 12:16:18-04
At Lamplighter Brewery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the only thing they take more pride in than the beer they produce here is the packaging each pint of craft ale goes out it.
But this brewery and many others across the country are discovering those plastic tops use to hold packs of beer together aren t actually being recycled by recycling companies.
Cayla Marvil is the co-founder of Lamplighter, which produces about 186,000 gallons of beer a year. Most of it ends up being sold directly to customers, each adorned with a plastic top carrier.
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Beer Nut: Few plastic beer can carriers being recycled
Today 8:18 AM
Rob’s email was an eye-opener.
According to estimates from data collected by the Mass. Brew Bros. in discussions with Massachusetts breweries, officials from recycling groups, and the state’s largest waste management companies, at least 10 million new plastic beer can carriers are used annually by breweries in Massachusetts, with just 10% of them being collected and reused, and less than 2% of them ever getting recycled.
This means that they end up glutting the state’s landfills.
As a craft beer drinker and big fan of the environment, this fact disturbs me.