Not kidding. Today I received an anonymous message from a group called the Transparency Collective. I guess they failed to notice the irony.

47% fewer littered caps! This was AFTER a previous 80% reduction in the number of littered bottles, due to implementation of DRS. www.packaginginsights.com/news/tethere...

Ireland’s recycling rate for plastic bottles and aluminium and steel cans has jumped from 49% to 91% since the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme. Of this, 76% is directly captured via the DRS, with an additional 15% collected through mixed dry recycling. re-turn.ie/re-turn-2024...

Fantastic recycling rates for glass in EU! Note that they use dedicated, separate collection containers in most places to collect glass -- it's not mixed with other materials. www.packaginginsights.com/news/eu-glas...

Seem slike a lot of money....$450 billion... www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemica...

Ugh. Pepsi is going backwards on its "target" on 20% reusable packaging. www.packaginginsights.com/news/pepsico...

U.S. aluminum beverage can waste is sky-high. CRI's new report - "Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling - explains why, & provides data-based strategies to change this. Read the report: www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...

Walmart had a goal of using 17% recycled content in their own ("private-brand") plastic packaging by 2025. Instead, they increased their use from 7% in 2021 to 8% in 2023. www.wastedive.com/news/walmart...

A new CRI report shows that implementation of a national beverage container deposit return system (#DRS, aka #bottlebill) would raise the aluminum used beverage can (UBC) recycling rate to 85%– an increase of 48 percentage points over the rate in 2021. www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...

150 people attended "Deposit Return Scheme Day" in Tehran, Iran last week. www.tehrantimes.com/news/510204/...

NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

Ready, fire, blame! Someone ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release water at a rate that would have caused flooding. Mind you, that's water that needs to be stored now so it can be used later to water crops in the central valley when the hot, dry summer comes. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

So sad to hear that our favorite hiking spot in LA burned down. The Will Rogers historic buildings were such a gem. There were historic photographs and movies in the little museum....https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346