Article: Oregon expanding its bottle bill; Amendment adds water bottles to current deposit law.(News)

Byline: Mike Verespej

In a victory hailed by both recyclers and anti-litter advocates, Oregon is set to add water and flavored-water bottles to its 36-year-old bottle-deposit bill, starting Jan. 1, 2009.

Oregon is the first state to expand its bottle-deposit law to include water bottles since California in 2000.

A more comprehensive measure in Connecticut that would double that state's deposit fee to 10 cents and add water, sports, teas and juices bottles was killed in committee last week, but is expected to resurface as an amendment to an existing bill this week, said Jessie Stratton, a consultant and former chairman of the House Environment ...

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