Dr Pepper Extends Recycling Program with Keep America Beautiful

Allan Gerlat, News Editor

January 15, 2014

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Dr Pepper Snapple Group has renewed its partnership with Keep America Beautiful (KAB) through the beverage company’s $300,000 commitment to continue providing recycling opportunities to consumers.

The Stamford, Conn.-based KAB said in a news release that the agreement with the Plano, Texas-based Dr Pepper extends for a second year the DPS/KAB Park Recycling Grant Program, which funds the placement of recycling bins within city, regional and state public parks across the United States.

The program is accepting applications for recycling bin grants on its website, irecycleonthego.wordpress.com. In addition to Keep America Beautiful affiliates, those eligible to apply are state and local government agencies that deal with recycling activities in local, regional and state parks.

In the grant program’s inaugural year it provided more than 700 recycling bins for placement in various park settings, including athletic fields, neighborhood parks, walking trails and beach locations. In all, the program awarded 33 grants to local and state governments in 23 states.

About the Author

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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