Crushed plastic bottles sit in a bale following sorting at the Mid-America Recycling plant, in Lincoln, Neb. Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo and Keurig Dr. Pepper are investing $100 million to improve U.S ...

More than 1 million plastic bottles are bought around the world per minute, 2017 report says The American Beverage Association announced on Tuesday that the world's leading beverage companies ...

Ice River Springs estimates its use of recycled plastic reduces the energy needed to make one bottle by 70 per cent and the water consumption to do so by 99 per cent.

Tethered caps are not easily removed from plastic bottles – they are difficult to throw away even if someone wanted to. The initiative is modelled on a packaging change in the 1980s.

"Anytime you can recycle a bottle back, you are gaining another life for that plastic."The company has addressed some of the business challenges by starting its own plastics recycling company, Blue ...