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Article: Schwarzenegger vetoes Calif. bottle bill.(News)
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- Waste & Recycling News
- Article date:
- October 26, 2009
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Byline: Mike Verespej
The effort to expand the bottle bill in California has failed, doomed by a combination of state budgetary problems and the failure of the bill to provide a solution that would help repair the state's beverage container recycling fund.
In vetoing SB 402 which had passed both the Senate and Assembly with a 60% majority Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cited numerous flaws in the bill, including its failure to contain "solutions for the long-term repair of the state's beverage container recycling fund, which is facing a $200 million deficit for fiscal year 2009-10.
"SB 402 fails to make the hard choices that need to be made with ...