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Water bottler to make its own pellets from 100% PCR PET

Ice River Springs has a bold answer to those who whine that PET bottles are bad for the environment: It’s turning post-consumer bottles into new ones in a closed-loop system.

The International Bottled Water Association recently posted a video to YouTube that gives four members—Nestle Waters North America, Absopure, Eastman, and Sparkletts—a chance to talk about what they’re doing for the environment.

Not in the video, but more impressive in my opinion, is what Canadian water bottler Ice River Springs of Shelburne, Ontario, is doing. They’re building a PET recycling plant that makes them the first bottled water company in North America to self-manufacture its own resin.

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