Recycling report card: How did they fare?

Plastics News, May, 2000

After a one-year hiatus, we're celebrating the return of our recycling report card, a look at the past year in plastics recycling. As usual, we're tough graders -- the average is a solid C, and there's only one A student this year. Grade inflation does not exist at Plastics News. Grades are based on whether the parties met their goals, whether their efforts were sustainable and whether their accomplishments were substantive or frivolous.

American Plastics Council: C It's a real mixed bag for one of the industry's leading trade groups on recycling issues. APC continues to oppose bottle bills, which we think are effective. But the trade group, to its credit, is putting more than $100,000 into a large-scale education effort to boost collection in...