Nickeled Back: Oregon to Tax Bottled Water
December 29, 2008
For years people have been making weekly bottle runs, reaping small change from soda and beer cans. In Oregon they will soon be able to do the same with water. A change to the state’s Bottle Bill implements a five cent deposit on each water bottle.
The policy, officials hope, will encourage consumers to recycle the more than 200 million containers they purchase every year. While only 20 percent of soda and beer bottles make it to the landfill, more than half of water bottles accumulate there.
Dan McGee, owner of water bottling company Oregon Rain, looks forward to the change. “I think adding water — given its current volumes — when you look at the total number of plastic bottles that are produced — was the correct thing to do,” he says. “The more
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http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/north-america/nickeled-back-oregon-to-tax-bottled-water/*******
I am excited about this! I think it is a great idea to put a deposit on water, because then it will encourage people to take the bottles back to recycle!
