Finally a story about recycling plastic bottles! As a member of Ecology Action for almost five years, containers with the recycle “1” and “2” symbols on them are the most common things next to paper I see people throw in the garbage. Personally, I would prefer the old glass deposit bottles but the whole weight/shipping argument defeats taste/reusability. Then I also remember my boss Juan’s story about how he cut his arm on a carton of them when he was younger; definitely a post-concert mishap for EA to avoid.
The story is pretty solid from what I’ve learned in my basic training with EA. I think NPR should’ve given the Nestle CEO guy some cheese for his w(h)ine on the deposit being mandatory with all containers. I have no problem with it because I turn in any glass container I can and qualifying plastics. His product will just be affected more often since his actual goal is to get people addicted to bottled water over cheaper tap water. Other than that, when you do turn in your bottles, please take the lid off, places such as EA can’t do anything with them…yet.