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Container and Packaging Recycling UPDATE Summer/Fall 2001 Issue
Volume XI No. 1	Summer/Fall 2001

Table of Contents NEWS ANALYSIS Aluminum -- Can Waste Squanders Energy, Recycling rate hits 12-year low BEAR Pursues Bottle and Can Waste, Setting 80 Percent Recycling Goal By LANCE KING Plastic Bottle Waste Dramatically Exceeds Recycling in 2000 Shareholders Press Beverage Industry to Increase Recycling: Coke Commits to Small Steps, Pepsi Snubs Effort By LANCE KING National News Brief Letter from the Executive Director STATE UPDATE State Summary Oregon: Nation's First Bottle Bill Turns 30 Hawaii: Hawaii Poised to Adopt Bottle Bill By LANCE KING Missouri: New Attack on Local Deposit Ordinance Connecticut: Legislation Expanding Program Passes Environment Committee, Then Stalls California: Ups and Downs in First Year of Expanded Deposit Program Iowa: Future of Bottle Bill at Stake Expansion or Repeal? Massachusetts: Energy Committee Holds Hearings on Bottle Bill Proposals Puerto Rico: Bottle Bill Introduced in Senate Michigan: Leading Conservation Group Calls for Expanding Beverage Deposit Law Kentucky: Stumbo Will Have Another Go at Amendment INTERNATIONAL NEWS "Ecologically damaging packaging" target for deposits in Germany CRI EDITORIAL: Lessons from the "Greatest Generation"