Beverage Container Data and Contamination Issues Beverage Container Data and Contamination Issues November 8, 2006 Peter Spendelow Oregon Department of

Beverage Container Data and Contamination Issues

Beverage Container Dataand Contamination Issues

November 8, 2006Peter Spendelow

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

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Sources of data

• EPA: Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste

• Beverage/Retail industry marketing data• Alcohol sales data from state regulators• Special studies

– Waste composition for disposal

– Recycling survey and recycling composition

– Litter

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EPA Glass Container Tonnage(Thousands of tons: 2005)

Material Name Disposed Recycled Generated%

recycled

Beer & soft drink 4,960 2,190 7,150 30.6%

Wine, liquor 1,390 250 1,640 15.2%

Other containers 1,810 320 2,130 15.0%

Total containers 8,160 2,760 10,920 25.3%

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Oregon Glass Container Tonnage

Material Name Disposed Recycled Generated % recycled

Based on EPA per capita

Beer & soft drink 60,928 26,902 87,830 30.6%

Other container glass 39,308 7,002 46,310 15.1%

Total glass bottles, jars 100,236 33,904 134,140 25.3%

Actual Oregon estimates

Beer & soft drink 10,063 63,055 73,118 86.2%

Other container glass 31,827 29,149 60,976 47.8%

Total glass bottles, jars 41,810 92,204 134,094 68.8%

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EPA Report

• Source: Municipal Solid Waste in the United States – 2005 Facts and Figures

• On web at www.epa.gov/msw/msw99.htm• Based on industry production data and interviews

with recyclers – not actual measurements of disposal

• National – not local in scope• Probably weak information for some individual

components (such as wine bottle recycling rates)

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Beverage Marketing Data

• Beverage World’s Databank• Beverage Marketing Corporation: numerous

reports that cost ~$5,000 each• Beverage Digest Factbook – non-alcoholic

beverage data $510.• Beer Institute: Brewers Almanac 2006 – free• Data from state regulators (Oregon Liquor

Control Commission in Oregon)

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Beverage Marketing Data (continued)

• Generally sales data only – not recycling or disposal

• National or regional in scope – generally no state data for non-alcoholic beverages

• Brewers Almanac does have state-by-state sales data

• Consumption can vary strongly between states – beer consumption ranges between 12.2 gallons to 31.1 gallons per person

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Oregon Estimate of Container Disposal

• Waste composition study every 2-4 years• Detailed information on beverage containers

per tons of garbage – by beverage and container type

• Multiply by tons of solid waste to estimate total containers disposed

• Study is fairly expensive, but also gathers lots of data on other solid waste subjects.

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Waste composition studies are used to estimate disposal.

We count and weigh beverage containers.

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Oregon Estimate of Container Recovery

• Annual Material Recovery Survey– Survey all recyclers for tons of each material

collected – by source

– Each recycler also reports where they sell each material – to eliminate double-counting.

• Special study 2004-2005 of recycling composition

– combined with Material Recovery Survey to determine number of beverage containers recycled – by beverage and container type.

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Recycling numbers from statewide curbside/depot composition study and also DEQ’s annual material recovery survey

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Disposal, Recycling, and Redemption(in millions of containers: 2003 - 2004 data)

Material Name Disposed RecycledNot redeemed

Redeemed Total%

recycled

Deposit

Beer & soft drink248.9 63.0 1163.1 1475.0 83.1%

Water 101.6 49.1 1150.7 32.6%

Juice/tea/other 135.4 53.2 188.6 28.2%

Milk 46.2 39.5 85.7 46.1%

Wine 11.4 26.0 37.4 69.6%

Liquor 9.7 7.7 17.4 44.3%

Total no-deposit 304.2 179.0 483.2 37.0%

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Oregon Water Bottle Disposal

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Oregon Rigid Plastic Container Recycling Rate(2004, 2005 are preliminary) October 4, 2006

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

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Rigid Plastic Containers

Plastic Container Recycling Tonnage 2005 by Source

(preliminary estimates) October 4, 2006

Tons Percent Comment

Curbside/Hauler 8,458 61.3% Plus 1,700 tons est. loss

Bottle Bill 3,902 28.3%

Other (AgriPlas, Weyerhaeuser, etc.)

1,443 10.5%

Total 13,803 100%

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Disposal by Plastic Container Type(2005 preliminary estimates) October 4, 2006

Tons Percent

Deposit bottles 1,837 4.4%

No-deposit beverage bottles 9,803 23.5%

Non-beverage bottles 9,470 22.7%

#2,#5 tubs, pails, pots 8,912 21.4%

Other rigid plastic containers 11,682 28.0%

Total 41,704 100%

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Disposal by Plastic Beverage Container (2005 preliminary estimates) October 4, 2006

Tons Percent Beverage

Percent

RPCs

Deposit Bottles 1,837 15.8% 4.4%

Water Bottles 2,680 23.0% 6.4%

Juice/Tea/Sports Drinks 4,037 34.7% 9.7%

Milk Jugs/Bottles 2,577 22.1% 6.2%

Liquor Bottles 293 2.5% 0.7%

Other Beverages 216 1.9% 0.5%

Total 11,640 100.0% 27.9%

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Metro Contamination Studies

Newspaper Contamination by Processor (Metro 2004-05 study)

(1) Old corrugated cardboard, kraft bags, old boxboard, paperboard packaging. (2) Glass, plastic and metal containers, scrap metal.(3) Weighted average of two grades that are produced.

Unbleached Non-fiber TotalProcessor Fiber (1) Recyclables (2) Prohibitives LossD 3.8% 1.1% 1.5% 6.4%B (3) 5.2% 1.7% 1.4% 8.3%G 5.2% 2.2% 2.2% 9.6%E 8.1% 1.1% 1.4% 10.5%F 4.2% 3.7% 2.8% 10.8%C 6.8% 2.1% 2.4% 11.2%Average 5.5% 2.0% 2.0% 9.5%

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2004-05 Non-fiber Recyclables in Newspaper, by processor (Metro 2004-05 study)

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0.5%

1.0%

1.5%

2.0%

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Glass Containers Plastic Bottles

Aluminum Cans Steel Cans/Scrap Metal

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2004-05 Commingled Container Loss in Newspaper (Metro 2004-05 study)

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Recycled Curbside Loss in ONP

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Rigid Plastic Containers

Plastic Container Recycling Tonnage 2005 by Source

(preliminary estimates) October 4, 2006

Tons Percent Comment

Curbside/Hauler 8,458 61.3% Plus 1,700 tons est. loss

Bottle Bill 3,902 28.3%

Other (AgriPlas, Weyerhaeuser, etc.)

1,443 10.5%

Total 13,803 100%

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