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Article: Oregon's bottle bill next up for recycling.
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- San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
- Article date:
- December 10, 2006
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Byline: Harry Esteve
Dec. 10--A plastic half-liter bottle of "sparkling" Arrowhead water costs 60 cents plus a nickel deposit that can be redeemed in Oregon when the bottle's empty.
Two feet away on the supermarket shelf are nearly identical bottles of "plain" Arrowhead water with no deposit required.
The difference? Bubbles. Another difference? Once empty, the bottle of plain water is nearly three times as likely to be thrown away as the bottle of fizzy water.
Oregon's bottle bill, adopted in 1971, required deposits only on carbonated drinks because in those days most of the beer and soda bottles could be refilled at the bottling ...