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Tell the General Assembly: Support the RI bottle bill!

Right now, beverage containers, including plastic bottles, are littering our neighborhoods, clogging storm drains, polluting our waterways, and piling up in the landfill, but states with bottle bills have a higher rate of recycling AND less litter. This year, Rhode Island can join this club by passing the Beverage Container Deposit Recycling Act of 2023.

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Subject: Tell the General Assembly: Support the RI bottle bill!

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I am your constituent, and I would like you to support the Beverage Container Deposit Recycling Act of 2023 also known as the “bottle bill.” This bill will fight plastic pollution and increase our state’s recycling rate. Beverage containers are one of the biggest contributors to litter and marine debris in Rhode Island, (with plastic beverage containers being particularly problematic.) For example, during the 2021 International Coastal Cleanup, volunteers removed over 31,000 beverage containers from our shore. And more recently, volunteers with Friends of the Saugatucket collected over 5,000 miniature alcohol containers (a.k.a. “nips”) in just twenty days. In states with a bottle bill, customers pay a small deposit on each container they purchase which is returned to them when they bring the empty bottle back to a participating retailer or redemption center to be recycled. This creates a financial incentive to keep litter out of our waterways. Even better, the containers collected this way are better sorted and less contaminated than bottles collected by curbside recycling, so they are easier to recycle back into new bottles. Bottle bills work! The 10 states that have already adopted them, including our neighbors Massachusetts and Connecticut, have less litter AND higher rates of recycling than states without bottle bills. If our state is serious about cleaning up plastic litter, preventing microplastics from polluting the bay, and diverting waste away from the landfill, then the single most impactful policy we can adopt is the bottle bill. Please support this legislation. Thank you!

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Tell the General Assembly: Support the RI bottle bill!

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Clean Water Action - Rhode Island Office

134 Thurbers Ave Suite 118, Providence, RI 02905 Phone: (401) 331-6972

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Clean Water Action - Rhode Island Office

134 Thurbers Ave Suite 118, Providence, RI 02905 Phone: (401) 331-6972

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134 Thurbers Ave Suite 118, Providence, RI 02905
Phone: (401) 331-6972

134 Thurbers Ave Suite 118, Providence, RI 02905
Phone: (401) 331-6972