{"id":15838,"date":"2012-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120616-01n"},"modified":"2012-06-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T22:00:00","slug":"bioplastics-get-trashed-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bioplastics-get-trashed-in-rhode-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioplastics Get Trashed in Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The claim on the bottle and on Dasani\u2019s website, which shows an image of a water bottle emerging from a dew-flecked green leaf, is that its plant-based PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are made from up to 30 percent plants and are 100 percent recyclable.<\/p>\n<p>But buyers of Rhode Island\u2019s post-consumer plastic consider plant-based PET plastic to be a contaminant, according to Sarah Kite, director of recycling services for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (RIRRC).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Perplexed that Dasani\u2019s marketing claims weren\u2019t matching up to reality, ecoRI News contacted Steve Alexander at the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APPR), a national trade association representing companies who acquire, reprocess and sell more than 90 percent of the post-consumer plastic in North America.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecori.org\/front-page-journal\/2012\/6\/3\/bioplastics-get-trashed-in-rhode-island.html\" >www.ecori.org\/front-page-journal\/2012\/6\/3\/bioplastics-get-trashed-in-rhode-island.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: monoethylene glycol (MEG), compostable, biodegradable<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The claim on the bottle and on Dasani&rsquo;s website, which shows an image of a water bottle emerging from a dew-flecked green leaf, is that<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[463,16042],"class_list":["post-15838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-association-of-postconsumer-plastic-recyclers","supplier-dasani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15838"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}