Article: Original Bottle Bill Legislative Leaders Urge 'NO' Vote on Measure 37

Article: BOTTLE BILL FOES HIRE AIDE CLAIM LESS DRASTIC ...
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  February 9, 2000 ;     592 words ... ... as other, less drastic, measures, opponents said. A Massachusetts ... lost sales to bordering non-bottle bill states, bottle bills are ... are mobilizing to defeat the bottle bill and wrapping tax pieces of ... campaign. Supporters of the bottle bill have their own initiative ...

Article: D.C. Recycling Plan Offers More Impact Than Bottle ...
The Washington Post;  November 27, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... decisively rejected a bottle bill initiative proposed ... cautiously after the measure was introduced on ... opponent of the bottle bill initiative, says that unlike that measure, which backers ... under the defeated bottle bill. Winter said she ...

Article: ANOTHER TRY AT BOTTLE BILL; LEGISLATURE CAN ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... successful, 25-year-old bottle bill than an upgrade? The proposed "bigger better bottle bill" would expand the current ... pass this common-sense measure. They even have the ... sales since the first bottle bill was passed in 1982 ...

Article: UPDATING BOTTLE BILL IS A COMMON-SENSE ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 21, 2008 ;     579 words ...To the Editor: The bottle bill, which put a five-cent refundable ... a corporate subsidy. The updated bottle bill would redirect this money to programs ... no reason why this common-sense measure shouldn't be included in this year ...

Article: Gov. wants to bottle bill; Hawaii's new governor ...
Waste News;  February 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the state Legislature to repeal the bottle bill it enacted last year that would place ... encourage their return. Backers of the bottle bill say it will reduce litter and the amount ... Meanwhile, the sponsor of the original bottle bill predicts the governor's proposal to ...

Article: Improving bottle bill calls for compromise; Input ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 4, 2004 ;     643 words ... ... into place in 1978. The problem grocers face is that the bottle bill works. Ninety to 95 percent of the 1.4 billion beverage ... recycled. There is not one little change that will make the bottle bill a better fit for grocers and distributors. But perhaps an ...

Article: More Than Nickels at Stake In D.C. Bottle Bill ...
The Washington Post;  August 9, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... proponents of the bottle bill won. But four years ... cost campaigns by bottle bill opponents quashed measures in four states, and ... for partisans in the bottle bill wars. Documents filed ... trying to repeal the measure spent $1 million ...