Ice River Springs
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| Industry | Beverage |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Morganton, North Carolina, United States |
| Products | Bottled water, Ice River Green |
| Website |
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Ice River Springs is a private label bottled water producer for retailers and food service operators and manufacturer of the Ice River Green brand of bottled water. The company runs a plastics recycling operation, BMP Recycling, that takes bottles collected by municipalities and produces food grade recycled PET.
Company history
The company was started in 1995 in Feversham, Ontario bottling the spring water that fed a trout farm. The company has grown and now operates ten bottling plants in the United States and Canada. In 2011 they opened a plastics recycling operation producing 100% recycled PET bottles that can be recycled in an endless "closed loop".[1] In 2014 the company launched the Ice River Green brand of bottled water in order to utilize the recycled green PET plastic that might otherwise be downcycled.
Environmental commitment
The company is committed to reducing energy consumption, recycling plastic and minimizing its carbon footprint. Each case of water the company shipped in 2014 required 84% less energy to produce than the equivalent produced in 2002 with greenhouse gas emissions being reduced by 71%. In 2014 the company launched Ice River Green, a brand of bottled water that utilizes 100% recycled PET plastic. Ice River Springs is the only beverage company in North America that has an in house recycling operation. The initiative was recognized with a DuPont Packaging Award in 2014.[2] Levels of PET bottle recycling were 31.2% in North America according to a report from The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR). [3]
References
- ↑ Powell, Matt. "Plant". Retrieved 9 October 2012.
- ↑ Dupont Packaging Awards
- ↑ http://www.plasticstoday.com/articles/recycling-for-PET-packaging-reaches-31-percent-in-2013-141008