Dec. 15, 2011 Bottle deposit return systems create 11 to 38 times more jobs than curbside recycling systems for beverage containers, a recently released report has found. Waste & Recycling News
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Bottle Bills Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss
October 30, 2011 Dear EarthTalk: Why don’t more states mandate deposits on beverage bottles as incentives for people to return them? Most bottles I’ve seen only list a few states on them. E Magazine
CRI Cited: According to the Container Recycling Institute (CRI), a California-based non-profit which encourages the collection and recycling of packaging materials (and runs the website BottleBill.org), the benefits of bottle bills include: supplying recyclable materials for a high-demand market; conserving energy, natural resources and landfill space; creating new businesses and green jobs; and reducing waste disposal costs and litter.
September 12th, 2011 BARRY ASKED THE QUESTION: While I was drinking a bottle of water, I noticed it said “CA, MI, OR, HI, 5 cents.” I know this means that the price includes a 5-cent return deposit, but there’s no chance I’ll return it to that store (it will go in the recycle bin). So, what happens to that 5 cents the store collected? Since it’s only in certain states, is there a fund that is used to collect and recycle? Earth911
CRI cited: According to Executive Director Susan Collins: “In California and Hawaii, there is a special fund that is maintained by the state that pays for all beverage container recycling, so “unredeemed” or “abandoned” deposits are used to pay for recycling of all of the containers that do get turned in. And in California, a great deal of that money — over $100 million per year — funds the curbside recycling programs in the State. In Iowa, Vermont, Maine and Oregon, the unclaimed deposits are retained by the beverage distributors, but those distributors pay for the recycling of the bottles and cans that are redeemed. And in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Michigan, the unclaimed deposits are either retained by the state governments or shared between the states and the distributors.”
Bottle up litter (Letter to the Editor) By Terese Hammerle
July 28, 2011 In my town we have curbside recycling (“Lawmakers looking to expand bottle law,” July 19). But data collected by organizations like Container Recycling Institute (CRI) tell us that most bottled water isn’t consumed at home. Boston Herald
July 20, 2011 Assertions by critics that expanding the bottle law would cost $116 million a year are “inflated’’ and “debunked by objective facts,’’ according to a report by state officials comparing redemption laws in Massachusetts and neighboring states. Boston Globe
CRI Cited: "The Container Recycling Institute, a California-based monitoring organization, estimated that Americans doubled the bottled water they drank between 2003 and 2005, when more than 50 billion plastic bottles ended up in incinerators, landfills, or as litter."
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