Hawaii’s Governor signed the nation’s 11th bottle bill into law earlier this week. According to the Container Recycling Institute, deposit laws have been proposed in nearly every U.S. state, but no ...

Hawaii consumers and ... motivate many consumers to haul containers to sites for deposit refunds. Company President Terry Telfer noted that a Hawaii glass bottle return law in the 1960s used ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii’s five cent beverage container fee has been incentivizing recycling since 2005 when it was established. A new bill introduced this legislative session seeks to ...

Reynolds, the largest redemption center operator under the program, said in written testimony that a 5-cent deposit is too low to motivate many consumers to haul containers to sites for deposit ...

Hawaii consumers and businesses could see a 100% spike in the cost to discard beverage containers via curbside recycling, the trash and other means outside of a state redemption program.