CRV Rates
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The consumer recycling rate for aluminum cans, which measures domestic consumer recycling behavior, was up nearly 2 points to 56.7 percent in 2014, the highest rate reported since 1997 and a more than 12-point improvement since earlier in the decade.
Aluminum cans are the most sustainable beverage package on virtually every measure. Aluminum cans have a higher recycling rate and more recycled content than competing package types. They are lightweight, stackable and strong, allowing brands to package and transport more beverages using less material. And aluminum cans are far more valuable than glass or plastic, helping make municipal recycling programs financially viable and effectively subsidizing the recycling of less valuable materials in the bin.
California Redemption Value (CRV) Per Pound — Effective January 1st 2017
- Aluminum Cans - $1.60
- Glass Bottles - $0.102
- #1 PETE Plastic Bottles - $1.24
- #2 HDPE Plastic Bottles - $0.57
- #3 PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) - $0.56
- #4 LDPE Plastic Bottles - $2.04
- #5 PP Plastic Bottles - $0.58
- #6 PS Plastic Bottles - $5.63
- #7 Others Plastic Bottles - $0.31
- Bimetal - $0.37
- In California, about 21 billion California Refund Value (CRV) eligible containers were sold in 2013. Of those, more than 18 billion were recycled!
- And the 3 billion that ended up in landfills? You could use them to fill every lane of a more than 700-mile length of Interstate 5...almost a foot deep.
- Since 3 billion bottles and cans ended up in the landfill, nobody claimed the CRV on them. How much CRV? More than $100 million worth!
- CRV refunds are available to anyone--consumers, companies, or nonprofits--who returns bottles and cans to a recycling center.
- For every 10 pounds of aluminum you recycle, you eliminate 37 pounds of carbon emissions from the air.
- For every 10 pounds of clear plastic water or soda bottles, 3.3 pounds of carbon emissions disappear.
- And although glass bottles are a lot heavier, each 10 pounds recycled still reduces carbon by nearly a pound.
- In a landfill, aluminum cans take 80-100 years to break down.
- Plastic bottles hang around as long as 700 years.
- Glass bottles spend 1 million years waiting around to decompose.