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Article: Stronger bottle bill would benefit New York.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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The Assembly should be commended for passing a bill that would make the state's successful returnable container law even stronger than it is today. Now it's time for the Senate to act on this important bill.
The bottle bill has made the state's streets cleaner, its playgrounds safer and its communities more livable. But that's not all. It has been equally effective as a recycling program, keeping more than 5 million tons of valuable scrap materials out of landfills and supplying feedstocks to the state's recycling businesses.
The Assembly correctly reasoned that if there's a refundable nickel deposit on a plastic Pepsi soda bottle, then an identical ...