Nestlé Waters North America is supporting an amendment to a bill in Maine that would set minimum post-consumer recycled content requirements for plastic beverage containers sold in the state, reports Food Dive. The amendment calls for altering targets to begin at 25 percent by April 2025 and increase to 30 percent by April 2030. The original bill called for the containers to have a post-consumer recycled content of 15 percent by 2022, increasing to 25 percent by 2024.
Tomra, a recycling company, has endorsed the new language, in addition to the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the Conservation Law Foundation, and other environmental groups. "Recycled content legislation supports plastic recycling markets because it creates more demand than would otherwise be created because of the relative low-cost of virgin plastic," said NCRM's sustainable Maine director Sarah Nichols in a statement to Waste Dive. Full Story
Related: Nestlé Partners with Plant-Based Ingredient Companies; Nestlé Restructuring Water Business.
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