The Container Recycling Institute (CRI) is an outstanding organization that addresses the serious problem of how plastics bottles and other types of packaging are overwhelming our landfills and polluting our oceans. CRI advocates for government, consumers and businesses to find innovative ways to promote the recycling of single-use containers. As a consumer, CRI has helped to raise my awareness of gravity of the problem and motivated me to reduce the use of plastic products and to recycle as much as possible in my household.
CRI provides the most complete and realiable website I know for understanding how bottle deposit systems work around the world. The analysis, studies and discussion meetings the institution provide strongly help bottle bill advocates, that so often work for non profit organizations with limited budgets. The services CRI provides are thus unique, of excellent quality and extremely helpful.
This is an outstanding research organization specializing in packaging recycling. It originally specialized in beverage container deposits but now is focused on broader issues such as curbside recycling ... The organization is dedicated to increasing recycling volumes as well as the quality of the materials being recycled.
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CRI is the leader in research for recycling of packaging in general and containers in specific. There are 10 states with container deposit laws which account for more than 50% of all containers recycled in the US. Without CRI's research and support many of the state grass root organizations would not receive the support they need to fend off the constant deposit repeal attempts by the beverage industry.