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Article: Oregon's aging bottle bill.(Editorials)(Adding water bottles will test creaky system)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 31, 2008
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Two hundred million bottles of water were sold in Oregon in 2005, and 125 million of them ended up in the trash.
Put those bottles end to end, and they'd reach around the world 1' times. Push them into a pile, and they'd choke a landfill. That's why the 2007 Legislature added a 5-cent deposit to bottles of flavored and unflavored water, effective Jan. 1.
The recycling rate for water bottles can be expected to double as a result. Complaints from retailers will grow louder as well, which should push the Legislature to consider an overhaul of the 1971 Bottle Bill.
The Bottle Bill, the first of its kind in the ...