A commission on plastic bottle waste recommended combo legislation as one path forward. Some packaging and recycling group ...

Rixaru X spoke to City Limits about the challenges New York City canners face and how the Bigger Better Bottle bill would ...

Another ordinance which regulates distance requirements from a business that sells liquor by the drink and beer was also amended on the final reading. The change was done to make Soddy Daisy ...

Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee has introduced legislation aimed at incentivizing recycling statewide. Hagan McEntee’s legislation — ...

While a bill was recently introduced to incentivize recycling in Rhode Island, some are raising concerns about the potential ...

The proposed bill comes on the heels of a study that explored issues with recycling practices for plastic bottles, glass, ...

The Chamber of Deputies was last due to discuss the deposit of PET bottles at an extraordinary meeting at the end of March, but the lower house rejected the draft agenda for the meeting at that time.

A newly formed advocacy coalition is pushing back against a proposal that would establish a bottle deposit return system, ...

Hagan McEntee’s legislation — described as a so-called “bottle bill” — would impose at 10-cent deposit on the purchase of each bottled or canned beverage. That deposit would then be refunded if the ...

Three options are going before lawmakers to boost RI's recycling of bottles, and two include options to return bottles for a ...

Some states have bottle deposit programs, which are “proven, sustainable methods of capturing beverage bottles and cans for recycling” by giving consumers money (usually 5 or 10 cents) for each bottle ...