America’s Beverage Companies Invest $478,500 in Wasatch to Improve Recycling Infrastructure
Support Improves Services for 35,865 Households
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – American Beverage today announced a $478,500 grant through its collaboration with The Recycling Partnership to the Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District to enhance recycling collection services across Utah’s Davis and Morgan Counties. This initial grant – part of a larger project that will improve curbside recycling access to multiple communities in the counties – will provide 1,400 households in Morgan City, 2,500 households in Morgan County and 9,848 households in Syracuse City with new curbside recycling carts.
“This initial investment marks the beginning of significant improvements coming to Utah’s recycling infrastructure,” said Des Barker of the Utah Beverage Association. “Through this comprehensive effort, we will improve recycling services for 105,205 residents across the district, to ensure that more of our bottles and cans are collected and properly recycled.”
The project follows a 2024 ordinance passed by Wasatch which incentivizes universal access to solid waste and recycling collection services across its 17 communities. Upon completion of the project, thousands of households will have improved access to recycling services and the education necessary to recycle properly.
The total investment of new curbside recycling carts is expected to keep more than 82 million pounds of recyclables out of the environment or landfills over the next decade. This includes more than 3 million pounds of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic and more than 1 million pounds of aluminum, both of which are used to make recyclable cans and bottles.
This project represents another step forward for Every Bottle Back—an initiative of The Coca-Cola Company, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo—that launched in 2019 and has reached more than 14 million Americans through nearly $30 million in funding nationwide. In total, the investments across 53 communities are estimated to yield more than 710 million new pounds of recycled PET and 44 million more pounds of recycled aluminum over the next decade.
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