Total Annual Recovery (billions of units)	Per Capita Recovery (units)		Cost to Recycle Per Unit
40 Non-Deposit States (71% of US Population)	38.2	191		1.25 cents
10 Deposit States (29% of US Population)	40.0	490		1.53 cents
(a) Includes revenues from material sales; does not include the forfeited deposit value of unredeemed containers. Source: Table ES-1, “Understanding Beverage Container Recycling: A Value Chain Assessment Prepared for the Multi-Stakeholder Recovery Project ,” Businesses and Environmentalists Allied for Recycling (BEAR), 2002.