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The United States' overall beverage container recycling rate is approximately 33%, while states with container deposit laws have a 70% average rate of beverage container recycling. Michigan's recycling rate of 97% from 1990 to 2008 was the highest in the nation, as is its $0.10 deposit. [ 2 ]
Container-deposit legislation (also known as a container-deposit scheme, deposit-refund system or scheme, deposit-return system, or bottle bill) is any law that requires the collection of a monetary deposit on beverage containers (refillable or non-refillable) at the point of sale and/or the payment of refund value to the consumers. When the ...
The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law. Implemented in 1983, the law requires containers of carbonated beverages to be returnable with a ...
So why does the Washington Refuse and Recycling Association, which represents the state’s solid waste handling industry, call bottle deposit systems a bad idea? | Op-ed WA trails its neighbors ...
However, lobbyists from the beverage-container industry were mostly successful in stopping these bans and bottle bills by arguing that they would hurt sales and lead to job losses. [4] [7] Instead, soft-drink and packaging manufacturers presented recycling as an "industry alternative" to deposit systems. [4]
City officials say the move is prompted by complaints about public alcohol consumption; opponents of the proposal say the new rules are unnecessary.
Deposit-refund systems or container deposit legislation, also known as "bottle bills", can be viewed either as a tax on producing waste in the form of beverage containers or as a subsidy for properly recycling these containers. When a retailer buys products from a distributor, it must pay a deposit for each beverage container it purchases.
KRS 189.530, the state law that establishes the rules around open containers in motor vehicles, states “nothing in this section shall prohibit the possession of an open alcoholic beverage ...