Recycling bins will collect 900 tons of beverage containers and reduce
trash by 50%
EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling
Company and Coca-Cola Recycling, LLC (CCR), announced a partnership with
Holiday Stationstores to enable beverage container recycling at Holiday
stores around the Twin Cities. Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company and CCR
will work with the Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) to manage the
program. Giant, bottle shaped recycling bins will be placed on each fuel
island at Holiday Stationstores. Through vocational centers, RAM will
employ adults with disabilities to pick up the materials and sort them at
the designated sorting facility. Finally, the collected material will be
returned to Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Eagan, Minnesota to be
processed and recycled into new cans and bottles.
The recycling program will be up and running at ten Twin Cities Holiday
locations by the end of October and at all 150 Twin Cities Holiday stores
by the end of 2009.
"Holiday Sationstores strives to provide customers with a shopping
experience that is unique to the convenience store industry. With
Coca-Cola, RAM and the vocational centers, we are offering customers a
convenient way to recycle while making a difference for the environment as
well," said Holiday Companies Vice President of Merchandising, Larry
Mitchell.
"Coca-Cola is committed to maximizing our use of renewable, reusable
and recyclable resources, ultimately recycling the equivalent of 100
percent of our packaging," said John Burgess, President of Coca-Cola
Recycling, LLC. "This partnership will make it convenient for consumers to
recycle away from home and it will help Coca-Cola close the loop by
recovering more material and using it to increase the recycled content of
our packages."
According to Ellen Telander, Director of the Recycling Association of
Minnesota, "Most Minnesotans recycle at home, but studies show that
recycling rates decrease dramatically when people are away from home. We
hope this program will reverse that trend."
Holiday Stationstores is a recognized leader in the convenience
store/gas station industry with 440 stores located throughout 12 states in
the northern tier region of the United States: Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming,
Idaho, Washington and Alaska. Holiday distinguishes itself in the
marketplace through its exceptional Holiday Pantry food programs and is the
sole distributor of Blue Planet gasoline, the clean air choice leader.
Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company, based in Eagan, is an operating
unit of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest marketer, distributor
and producer of Coca-Cola products. The company employs approximately 1,500
people in the state of Minnesota, including 1,000 at the Eagan facility.
Based in Atlanta, Coca-Cola Recycling is dedicated to recovering and
recycling packaging materials used in North America -- including
polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, aluminum, cardboard and plastic
film. Coca-Cola Recycling is working to recover and recycle the equivalent
of 100 percent of the packaging produced by the Coca-Cola system in the
United States. Founded in 2007, Coca-Cola Recycling is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), the world's largest marketer,
distributor, and producer of bottle and can liquid nonalcoholic
refreshment. CCE sells approximately 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's
bottle and can volume in North America and is the sole licensed bottler for
products of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, continental France, Great
Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, and the Netherlands.
The Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
membership organization with more than 200 members from the public,
private, and nonprofit sectors. RAM is the Minnesota affiliate of the
National Recycling Coalition. RAM is committed to promoting resource
conservation through waste prevention, reuse, recycling, composting and
purchasing practices using the most cost effective and environmentally
sound methods available in Minnesota.
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SOURCE Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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CONTACT:
Kevin Morris of Midwest Coca-Cola Bottling
Company, +1-651-456-1260, or cell, +1-612-963-5623; or Robert S.
Nye of Holiday Stationstores, +1-952-830-8737
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