Please Recycle
Did you know this bottle can be recycled? But fewer than 25% of all plastic bottles actually are recycled. We need your help. Be Green.
The Container Recycling Institute estimates that 75 to 80% of plastic bottles end up in landfills or incinerators.1 We want to be part of the solution. Every bottle produced by
Ice Mountain Spring Water Company
is recyclable. We also support curbside recycling and deposit programs because both methods have proven to be highly effective for all types of recyclable materials.
We believe the greatest impact we can have today to protect our environment is to design lighter bottles that use less plastic. Our lighter plastic Eco-Shape® bottles are easier to crush for recycling and require less energy to produce.
Visit icemountainwater.com/ecoshape
to learn more.
Smaller Labels, More Trees
We could write more on a bigger label, but saving trees is important. By keeping it short, we’re saving almost 10-million lbs. of paper per year in the U.S.—that's about 30,000 trees. Be Green.
It takes approximately 6 trees to make one ton of paper. Junk mail in the United States alone consumes over 100-million trees every year.2 With thoughts like that in mind, we're making smaller labels for our bottles. By cutting back on the amount of paper we use, we're helping reduce the deforestation of our woodlands. We're also helping to conserve considerable amounts of clean water and energy used in the paper manufacturing process. The less paper we use, the more trees we save for a greener environment.
Additionally, we are the first beverage manufacturer to build plants in America with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. By maintaining these high standards, we've saved vast amounts of energy, reduced toxic gas emissions by millions of pounds and diverted tons of solid waste from landfills since receiving our first certification in 2003.
* vs. our previous label
Eco-Shape® Bottle
This bottle is lighter than most half-liter beverage bottles because it contains an average of 30% less plastic*. It's another way we're reducing our impact on the environment. Be Green.
Our Eco-Shape® bottle reduces our use of PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) resin, which is oil (and natural gas) based, by 65 million pounds in one year. Because our Eco-Shape bottle is lighter, it requires less energy to make - resulting in a reduction in CO2 emissions.
Our goal to do more with less is making progress. In the last five years, we have reduced CO2 emissions by 30 percent for every liter produced. Over the last decade we've saved 245 million pounds of plastic resin through light-weighting initiatives such as the Eco-Shape® bottle. Further light-weighting planned for the half-liter bottle will result in another 10-15 percent reduction in packaging weight. It's all part of our continuing effort to reduce our impact on the Earth and our natural resources.
*versus comparable size carbonated and non-carbonated beverages.