Recycling Today reports that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Pollution Prevention Institute released a study on whether the state should expand its bottle bill program to include wine and liquor bottles.
The study investigates the implications that adding wine and liquor bottles to the list of redeemable containers in the New York State Bottle Bill would have. The study suggests that a 5-cent deposit on liquor and wine bottles could help to divert these glass bottles from municipal recycling and waste streams and increase recycling rates of wine and liquor bottles.
