600m bottles recycled in 2011
Friday, March 30th, 2012As reported in Globes:
Ela – Beverage Containers Collection Corporation Ltd. reports that the recycling of bottles is growing in Israel. 600 million bottles were recycled in 2011, 77% of bottles with deposits that were sold last year, and exceeding the 73% target set in the Bottle and Can Deposit Law (5759-1999).
41% of family-sized beverage bottles, on which there is no deposit, were recycled in 2011, exceeding the 35% target, amounting to 300 million bottles.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news – www.globes-online.com – on March 12, 2012