CEO DATELINE - Bottled water, plastics groups tout environmental sustainability
CEO DATELINE - Bottled water, plastics groups tout environmental sustainability
- January 22, 2018 |
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Walt Williams
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The International Bottled Water Association and Plastics Industry Association are both urging their members to be a little greener.
IBWA recently announced that it had teamed up with the nonprofit Keep America Beautiful to sponsor a national recycling initiative. At the same time, the Plastics Industry Association announced the adoption of its first sustainability statement.
The bottled water association will sponsor America Recycles Day, an annual event held Nov. 15 that teaches people the value of recycling. The move comes a few months after IBWA helped convince Trump administration officials to lift an Obama-era ban on the sale of bottled water in national parks, which generated outcry from environmentalists.
"The bottled water industry has for many years worked hard to proactively encourage consumers to always recycle their empty bottled water containers," IBWA CEO Joe Doss said. "All bottled water containers are 100 percent recyclable—even the caps." http://bit.ly/2n1KoNU
The new Plastics Industry Association sustainability statement urges plastics manufacturing companies to make sustainability "a guiding principle at all levels of operation." The group defines sustainability as business models that seek to drive value creation for society, the environment and industry.
"We want to provide our members with a guiding principle for how they should integrate sustainability into their operations," Vice President of Sustainability Kim Holmes said. http://bit.ly/2DpoxXN
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