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Canned wine with Iowa 5¢ and Maine 15¢ insignia Cans discarded less than two years after the Oregon Bottle Bill was passed.. California (5¢; for bottles 24 U.S. fl oz (710 mL) or greater, 10¢; boxed wine, wine pouches and cartons 25¢), California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (AB 2020) implemented in 1987, last revision made January 2024.
The usual rates are locally €0.02 for some wine bottles, €0.08 for beer bottles up to 0.5 L, and €0.15 for beer bottles with flip-top closures, beer bottles over 0.5 L and other bottles (mostly water and soft-drinks, lesser fruit drinks, milk, cream, yoghurt). Some bottles have an even higher deposit.
In 1971, Oregon became the first state in the US to implement a bottle bill that instituted bottle deposits of 5 cents. [3] A side-effect of disposable bottles and cans were larger serving sizes. Single-use bottles were at first relatively expensive to produce, which meant that portion sizes became larger. [2]
California centers will now accept wine and liquor bottles — as well as pouches, boxes and cartons — for cash as part of the Beverage Container Recycling Program.
Residents soon can turn in wine bottles, liquor bottles and other large beverage containers for cash. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed one measure amending the so-called California Bottle Bill into law in ...
A bottle bill sponsored by State Sen. Rachel May expands the items on the intake lists, adding wine and liquor to the products on the list. From trash to cash: NY bill could double value of your ...
In fact for every 10% of cullet added to the production of a new bottle, energy usage goes down by 3-4%. [2] Recycling one ton of glass can save approximately 42 kWh of energy which translates to 7.5 pounds of air pollutants not being released into the atmosphere. [6] An example of a "Bale" of plastic bottles at a recycling center.
Since then almost no plastic scrap has been exported to China from the United States and shipments of metal and paper scrap have been sharply reduced. Scrap plastic imports dropped from 3.5 million metric tons in 2017 to 21,300 metric tons in the first half of 2018. [27] As a result, scrap prices in the US have plummeted.