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Most plastic beer tops end up in landfills. Chicago breweries have a new way to fix that.

CHICAGO — You know those hard plastic beer can holders? I have 147 of them. I counted. They’re an array of colors — black, brown, silver, red, purple, yellow, pink, blue, three shades of green — and in mostly four-pack sizes, but also as six-packs. Why do I have a rainbow collection of 147 plastic beer top holders? Churning through a fair amount of beer is one reason, but another is that I ...
Recyclable plastic can holders at Temperance Beer Co. on Aug. 9, 2022, in Evanston.

CHICAGO — You know those hard plastic beer can holders?

I have 147 of them. I counted. They’re an array of colors — black, brown, silver, red, purple, yellow, pink, blue, three shades of green — and in mostly four-pack sizes, but also as six-packs.

Why do I have a rainbow collection of 147 plastic beer top holders? Churning through a fair amount of beer is one reason, but another is that I haven’t wanted to toss them in the garbage, for obvious reasons, or in recycling bins for less obvious reasons: Even

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