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Article: Senators upgrade bottle law.(Legislature)(The bill, which now goes to the House, would add plastic water bottles to the list of containers that carry a deposit)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2007
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Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard
SALEM - The Oregon Senate declared war Monday on the millions of plastic water bottles that end up littered on beaches and tossed in trash cans.
The chamber voted 23-7 to update Oregon's bottle bill - for the first time since its 1971 inception - to encourage recycling of water bottles.
In addition to containers for carbonated drinks, bottles and cans for water and flavored water beverages would carry a nickel deposit. As with pop and beer cans, that deposit would come back to the person who returns those water bottles to a grocery store or any other retailer that sells such drinks.
The passage ...