B.C. group says 2.3 million beverage container caps are lost every day in the province
This photo taken on April 21, 2012, shows plastic and metal garbage on a beach in New Jersey. An environmental group in British Columbia says 2.3 million beverage container caps go missing every day in the province.
Chloe Dubois, of the Ocean Legacy Foundation, says her organization analysed data from the Brewers Recycled Container Collection Council and Encorp Pacific, the corporation in charge of container management, to compare bottles and cans sold with the number that are returned. It says an addition 2.3 million beverage container caps go missing every day and it recommends that producers also be required to collect and report on bottle-cap recycling.
The ministry says more than one billion containers are recycled under the Encorp program alone each year.
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