Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages (CCSWB), a company of Arca Continental, continues to affirm its commitment to sustainability and access to recycling by launching the Texas Recycles Day Grant, in partnership with Keep Texas Beautiful and Keep Texas Recycling.

To commemorate Texas Recycles Day on November 15, CCSWB is awarding up to $15,000 in grants for improving recycling access and recycling programs execution across the state. Keep Texas Beautiful affiliates and Keep Texas Recycling members were invited to submit a proposal for monetary assistance to help strengthen their existing recycling programs. CCSWB is happy to celebrate the winners of the 2022 Texas Recycles Day grants:

● Alpine

● Brownwood

● Fort Clark Springs

● Midland

● San Marcos

● White Settlement

When PET is recycled, it can be broken down, cleaned, and reground into small flakes used to make new PET bottles that can then be recycled over and over again. The process of making PET bottles with recycled PET material requires less energy and emits fewer GHGs than creating a new bottle using virgin, petroleum-based sources, as well as keeping these materials out of the landfill.

Over the last two years, CCSWB has proactively invested in supporting recycling access, as well as innovation to design more resource-efficient packaging. This has allowed CCSWB to step up use of recycled PET content in its bottles – increasing from 1.9% in 2019 to 25% in 2020 and 50% from 2021 onward.

“We are thankful for Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages who support our efforts to promote recycling in communities around Texas,” says Suzanne Kho, Executive Director of Keep Texas Beautiful. “Through our Keep Texas Recycling program, we work to support recycling in rural communities like those represented by the Texas Recycle Day Grant winners. We’re excited to see the impact these projects will have in expanding recycling in their communities.”