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Bottle Bills/
Container Deposit Laws

2008

Want green? Put deposit on beverage containers	Sep 16	(IL)	Galesburg.com
Salada's "Unbottle Your Tea" Campaign Shows Health, Cost & Environmental Benefits of Drinking Freshly Brewed Tea over Bottled Tea	Sep 15	(US)	MarketWatch
Albany pinches pennies - deposit nickels pile up	Aug 29	(NY)	The Queens Courier
Ontario should consider deposit bylaw (Letter to the Editor)	Aug 22	(ON)	The Chatham Daily News
MUCC still pushing for expansion of bottle deposit law	Aug 19	(MI)	Spinal Column
Prospects called improved for expansion of bottle bill	Aug 12	(NY)	The Journal News
Litter Bugs Us: WALL•E and children know this, but do you? (Editorial)	Aug 7	(CT)	Hartford Advocate
Update Bottle Bill (Letter to the Editor)	Jul 26	(CT)	Hartford Courant
Should state add deposit on drink containers?	Jul 11	(MI)	The Detroit News
Retailers, trade groups fight expansion of bottle deposit rules	Jun 30	(MI)	Crain's Detroit Business
Expanded bottle bill would bring many benefits (Opinion)	Jun 28	(MI)	The Grand Rapids Press
Bottle recycling plan worth overcoming obstacles	Jun 27	(MI)	The Grand Rapids Press
Group wants to put deposits on water bottles, other containers	Jun 24	(MI)	Hillsdale Daily News
New Bottle Bill Expands Recycling Program	Jun 19	(NY)	Queens Tribune
Deposits on bottled water? Group pushes to spread law to other nonrefundable containers littering	Jun 18	(MI)	Detroit Free Press
Senate approves package of legislation to increase recycling	Jun 12	(RI)	Johnston Sun Rise
Water Proof	Jun 1		New York Times Magazine
New Jersey Weighs Charging Recycling Deposit on Drink Bottles	May 13	(NJ)	Bloomberg
A national bottle recycling bill	May 5	(US)	Gather News
Container recycling lags in Massachusetts: Some want deposit on containers for noncarbonated drinks	May 5	(MA)	Taunton Daily Gazette
State of Recycling: Broaden the bottle bill	May 3	(MA)	Taunton Daily Gazette
Retailers Critical Of Governor’s Deposit Bill	May 1	(NY)	The Post-Journal
Expand The Bottle Law (Editorial)	Apr 29	(CT)	Hartford Courant
First bottle bill passed more than 50 years ago	Apr 27	(NH)	Foster's Daily Democrat
State Bill 357:It's time to include water bottles in state's bottle bill (Editorial)	Apr 22	(CT)	The News-Times
Message in a bottle	Apr 20	(CT)	The News-Times
A effort to bottle-up litter	Apr 14	(RI)	Providence Journal
Message in a bottle: Proponents cite Maine's successful redemption law as a lesson for Mass.	Apr 9	(MA)	The Boston Globe
Expanding deposit to non-carbonated beverages could help recycling	Mar 30	(MA)	MetroWest Daily News
Oregon Leads Nation with Refunds for Plastic Water Bottles	Mar 15	(OR)	Salem News
Bill proposes deposit for drinking water containers	Mar 10	(CT)	Record-Journal
Bottle Bills	Mar		Beverage Spectrum
Bottled Up: It Makes Sense to Reform Iowa's Container-Deposit Law, But Change Has Its Pitfalls	Feb 27	(IA)	River Cities' Reader

2007

Recycling law laudable, but more action is needed	Nov 20		Asheville Citizen-Times
New National Bottle Bill Would Cut Heat-Trapping Emissions, Energy Needs	Nov 15	(US)	U.S. House Select Committee
For the Record: News and Notices from Local Elected Officials	Nov 1	(NY)	The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Tennessee woman bicycles in support of recycling bill	Oct 31	(TN)	Herald Courier
Store owners brace for more bottle woes	Oct 21	(MI)	The Oakland Press
Trouble With Recycling Points to Larger Problem (Opinion)	Sep 18	(FL)	The Ledger
Lawmakers counting unclaimed nickels: Money could go to curbside recycling, Oberle says	Jul 23	(DE)	Wilmington News Journal
Local residents push for bottle bill	Jul 16	(NH)	The Cabinet
Push to add deposit to more beverage containers	Jun 11	(NY)	Newsday
The Unintended Consequences Of Hyperhydration (Letters to the Editor)	Jun 10		The New York Times Magazine
The Bottle Bill: Keeping a lid on pollution since 1971	Jun 8	(NY)	The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Bottle bills didn't anticipate this	Jun 4		Charleston Daily Mail
Would a 'bottle bill' work in Nevada?	Jun 2	(NV)	Lahontan Valley News
The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration	May 27		New York Times Magazine
Bottle return law should change (Editorial)	May 25	(NY)	Niagara Gazette
Reforming of Bottle Bill Faces Hurdles	May 23	(CT)	Westport News
Donald C. Gasper: State needs bottle bill to curb litter problem (Opinion)	May 19	(WV)	The Herald-Dispatch
An Expanded Bottle Law (Editorial)	May 2	(CT)	Hartford Courant
There's money in those plastic bottles: Environmentalists want Connecticut to expand its bottle bill to include 5-cent refunds for plastic noncarbonated drink bottles	May 1	(CT)	The News-Times
Bottle bill expansion may head to Senate despite recyclers	Apr 12	(CT)	The News-Times
Starbucks' 2-faced environmentalism	Apr 1	(NY)	New York Post
Time to beef up bottle law? Many push for deposit on water, sports drinks	Mar 28	(MI)	The Detroit News
Bottle bill brings praise and frustration	Mar 20	(CT)	Connecticut Public Radio
Debate rages over bottle bill	Mar 5	(CT)	New Haven Register
Expanded bottle recycling bill likely in Oregon	Mar 1	(OR)	Plastics News
Environmentalists showing support for new bottle bill	Mar 5	(NY)	Legislative Gazette
Some find bottle-deposit plan hard to swallow	Mar 1	(CT)	New Haven Register
Spitzer: No fizz shouldn't mean no deposit	Feb 19	(NY)	The Daily Star (Oneonta)
Bill aims to keep bottle program alive: Iowa lawmakers will consider increasing the fee that distributors must pay redemption centers.	Feb 6	(IA)	Des Moines Register
Bruno shows resistance to bottle bill expansion	Feb 1	(NY)	Syracuse Post-Standard
No Deposit, No Return	Jan 25	(NY)	Artvoice
State Senate needs to act on 'Bigger Better Bottle Bill' (Opinion)	Jan 23	(NY)	The Ithaca Journal
Refund rates rise to help increase recycling efforts	Jan 21	(CA)	Ventura County Star
Bottle bill proposed to curb littering: But the beverage industry opposes nickel deposits	Jan 19	(MD)	Gazette.net
Bottle deposits, PR campaigns and old-fashioned work can put a dent in the litter problem (Editorial)	Jan 10	(NC)	Asheville Citizen-Times
Recycle, expand bottle bill (Editorial)	Jan 8	(CT)	Hartford Courant
No wine deposit, no return: Recycling bottles. SAQ resists pleas to allow new system	Jan 2		The Gazette (Montreal)

2006

•	Whose Priorities? Making real progress towards improving beverage container recovery efforts starts with expanding bottle bills. (op-ed) [PDF, 191kb]	Nov	Resource Recycling
•	Efforts afoot to expand the 'bottle bill'	Sept 9	The Journal News (New York)
•	Summer Fades, but the trash remains (Press release)	Aug 30	American Littoral Society, CRI, NYPIRG
•	It's time to see some action in Albany (Editorial)	Jun 27	Empirepage.com
•	APR bucks bottlers on bottle deposits	Jun 16	Plastics News
•	Proponents won't give up on bottle bill; Bruno won't budge	Jun 12	Legislative Gazette (NY)
•	Assembly passes 'bigger better bottle bill'	May 11	Mid Hudson News.com (NY)
•	Good for kids, bad for environment (Letter)	May 7	Berkshire Eagle (MA)
•	Assembly passes Bigger Better Bottle Bill by 2-1 margin	May 10	Press Release (NY)
•	For trash-free Potomac, we must recycle	Apr 29	Washington Post. (DC)
•	Litter Still Piles Up: OCRRA urges state to expand bottle bill	Apr 13	Post-Standard. (NY)
•	'YES' to the bottle deposit bill: For a nickel, we can add jobs, cut litter	Mar 25	Memphis Commercial Appeal (TN)
•	Time for a Bottle Bill	Apr-Jun	The Jersey Sierran (NJ)
•	One Man's Trash	Feb 17	Charleston Gazette (WV)