America’s leading beverage companies – The Coca-Cola Company, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo –announce the launch of the Every Bottle Back recycling initiative

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Letter: City of LaSalle Receives Beverage Industry Investment to Improve the Community’s Curbside Recycling

The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) congratulates the City of LaSalle on receiving an investment of $55,000 from American Beverage, the nation’s leading advocate of the non-alcoholic beverage industry, to improve the community’s curbside recycling infrastructure.

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Letter: Happy Holidays from The Illinois Beverage Association!

As the holiday season approaches, many people are thinking about how to maintain a healthy balance of sugar and calories. The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) encourages safe holiday celebrations with mocktails made from our industry’s delicious non-alcoholic beverages.

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Letter: Illinois Beverage Association Welcomes Children Back to School with Healthy Choices! 
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The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) welcomes our children back to school for the 2022-2023 school year, where they will have a variety of healthy beverage options to choose from.

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Letter: IBA’S Commitment to Growing Illinois’ Economy 

Illinois Beverage Association champions economic development and plays a critical role as an economic driver for the state, providing quality, good-paying jobs and generating significant revenue to bolster our communities.

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Letter: Urban sustainability starts with proper recycling practices
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Monday, Oct. 4, marked World Habitat Day, a special day designated by The United Nations to reflect on the state of urban sustainability. The Illinois Beverage Association believes that urban sustainability starts with proper recycling practices to keep our environment clean and clear from waste, and we’re committed to ensuring our plastic bottles don’t end up in rivers, oceans, or landfills.

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Letter: Think Balanced
The Southern Illinoisan 

With students across Illinois returning to classrooms, parents must once again consider the nutritional choices their children make while at school. The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) understands the importance of ensuring that schools offer healthy options for students.

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Letter: Committed to Economic Recovery
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a serious toll on the Illinois economy, with hundreds of thousands of workers still out of a job. That is why the Illinois Beverage Association is proud to be part of the solution in helping the state’s economic recovery.

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Letter: Protect, preserve natural environment
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For more than 50 years, Earth Day has provided an opportunity for us to celebrate our beautiful planet. This Earth Day, April 22, and throughout the month of April, the Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) is reinforcing our industry’s longstanding commitment to protecting our environment through sustainable solutions, reducing our plastic footprint and helping create a more circular economy for recyclables.

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Letter: Illinois’ Food and Beverage Industries Are All In Illinois
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In these extraordinary times, our essential workers are showing up every day, so Illinoisans have access to basic needs. It has been incredible to see the bravery of Illinois’ medical professionals and first responders. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

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Spotlight: Protecting our natural resources for generations to come
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The city of Peoria serves as an economic hub for central Illinois due largely to the Illinois River. The river is a principal tributary of the Mississippi facilitating trade and shipping and along its banks are some of the richest farmland on earth.

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Let’s get every bottle back
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According to the Rochester Institute of Technology, more than 22 million pounds of plastic end up on the shores of the Great Lakes. Our lakes are precious resources that we rely on daily — so it’s understandable when Illinoisans become frustrated when they see plastic bottles in nature. Illinois beverage makers share in that frustration.

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Coke, Dr Pepper, Pepsi execs: We are committed to reducing plastic waste
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Americans love beverages and all the choices they have. They also like the convenience of the plastic bottles that many beverages come in. What they don’t like is where a lot of these bottles end up.

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American Beverage Association launches ‘Every Bottle Back’ campaign
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America’s leading beverage companies—the Coca-Cola Co., Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo—have initiated a “breakthrough” effort to increase recycling rates and reduce the use of virgin resin by increasing collection of the industry’s valuable plastic bottles to make into new bottles.

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Sustainability alert: US beverage companies launch Every Bottle Back initiative
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The Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, Keurig Dr Pepper, Plano, Texas, and PepsiCo, Purchase, New York, have launched of the Every Bottle Back initiative, an effort to reduce the industry’s use of new plastic by making significant investments to improve the collection of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles.

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IBA NEWS RELEASES

LaSalle, Illinois, Selected for Recycling Investment Through Beverage Industry’s Every Bottle Back Initiative 

American Beverage today announced LaSalle, Illinois, has been selected to receive an investment of $55,500 from the beverage industry to improve the community’s curbside recycling system. This investment, combined with $4.5 million in city matching funds, will provide 3,700 households in LaSalle with free, 96-gallon recycling carts.

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The Illinois Beverage Association Welcomes 103rd Illinois General Assembly 

The Illinois Beverage Association welcomes the state legislators serving in the 103rd Illinois General Assembly. The inauguration of the House and Senate was held on Wednesday, January 11th, officially commencing the legislative session. 

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The Illinois Beverage Association Attends Annual American Beverage Government Affairs Conference

The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) attended the American Beverage Government Affairs Conference held in California this October. Member companies and state association heads gathered at the conference to discuss public health, environmental, packaging and sustainability issues within the Beverage Industry

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Illinois Beverage Association Celebrates “National Recycling Day” By Discussing Their Efforts To Get Every Bottle Back

The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) is celebrating National Recycling Day by touting the importance of industry-wide efforts to recycle. To ensure Illinois’ environment and natural resources, such as the Illinois River are preserved, IBA has teamed up with America’s leading beverage companies and environmental and sustainability partners to bring Every Bottle Back.

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IBA Co-Hosts Annual Springfield Business Day 

The first in-person event since the onset of the pandemic, IBA members directly engaged with members of the General Assembly and Pritzker administration on significant economic, sustainability and community benefits of Illinois’ non-alcoholic beverage industry.

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IBA member companies, Keurig Dr Pepper, The Coca-Cola Company, and PepsiCo, receive a 100% rating and named  as a 2022 “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality.”

IBA is proud to announce our three member companies, Keurig Dr Pepper, The Coca-Cola Company, and PepsiCo, were among the 842 businesses selected by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation as businesses that met the criteria to receive a 100% rating and the designation as a 2022 “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality.”

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Statement from Rob Nash, Executive Director of the Illinois Beverage Association regarding Chicago Ordinance O2021-5726, “Healthy Beverages Ordinance” introduced at December 15th, 2021 meeting of the Chicago City Council
December 16, 2021

Earlier this year, the Illinois Beverage Association partnered with the American Heart Association, members of the General Assembly and Illinois restaurants to support legislation (Public Act 102-0529) establishing menu guidelines for children’s meals.

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Beverage Industry Celebrates “America Recycles Week” By Emphasizing Cross-Industry Effort to Improve Recycling
November 15, 2021

Today kicks off “America Recycles Week”, during which the non-alcoholic beverage industry is promoting its significant efforts in recycling through its groundbreaking Every Bottle Back program, emphasizing the importance of protecting our environment and natural resources year-round. To date, the industry’s Every Bottle Back program has led to nearly $13 million in investments in 11 communities nationwide to help over 300,000 households recycle nearly 693 million more pounds of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic

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Beverage Industry Celebrates Milestone in Reducing Consumption of Beverage Calories
October 18, 2021

The latest evaluation of the non-alcoholic beverage industry’s commitment to reduce the sugar consumers get from beverages shows that consumption of full-calorie beverages declined in 2020 for the fourth consecutive year.

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IBA Congratulates Olympians for Historic Tokyo 2020 Participation
July 22, 2021

The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) proudly salutes those participating in the historic 2020 Tokyo Olympics, including more than 60 Olympians with Illinois connections who are competing in the games.

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PepsiCo Launches $40 Million Community College Program for Black and Hispanic Students Across the Country

Recognizing the need for systemic change to address barriers that make it difficult for low-income students of color to pursue higher education, PepsiCo and its philanthropic arm, the PepsiCo Foundation, today announces a new $40 million scholarship and professional mentoring program to support Black and Hispanic aspiring and graduating community college students.

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Illinois Beverage Association Salutes PepsiCo & COVID-19 Response Efforts Supporting Communities of Color

The Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) salutes member company PepsiCo and its philanthropic arm, The PepsiCo Foundation, who recently launched a nationwide COVID-19 relief and response effort.

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Illinois Beverage Association Completes Rebrand with Launch of New Website

On Thursday, June 4th the Illinois Beverage Association (IBA) announced its rebranding with the launch of its new website www.illinoisbeverage.org.

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America’s leading beverage companies introduce “EVERY BOTTLE BACK” Initiative

The Coca-Cola Company, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo Will Support Circular Plastics Economy Through Investment and Action, in Conjunction with World Wildlife Fund, The Recycling Partnership & Closed Loop Partners

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Can the Tax Coalition celebrates passage of Cook County Beverage Tax Repeal

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Illinois Beverage Association Meets with Elected Officials in Springfield During Annual Business Day

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Illinois Beverage Association Members Host Elected Officials For Facility Tours

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Illinois Beverage Association featured at National Government Affairs Conference

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Illinois Beverage Association Member Sponsors Premiere Sports Competition

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