Advocates are renewing their push for a long-stalled bill that would double New York’s bottle deposit from five to 10 cents, ...

Rachel May, who sponsors the bill, represents Finger Lakes communities near Seneca Meadows, New York’s largest landfill ... static since 2009. Rigid beverage bottles fall into the relatively ...

“A nickel in 1982 is not worth a nickel in 2025,” said Blair Horner, who runs the New York Public Interest Research Group in Albany. The expanded bottle bill includes sports drinks, iced ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — A study released at an Earth Day press conference showed that updating New York’s 40‑year‑old “bottle bill ... would broaden “beverage” to mean almost ...

Doubling the nickel deposit for cans and bottles could ... 2.40 to a 24-pack of beverages and encourage fraud among bootleggers who bring non-deposit containers into New York and sell them for ...

“Our bottles and cans are made to be remade,” American Beverage President and CEO Kevin Keane says. “Whether redeemed or recycled at home, New York’s beverage companies want our valuable containers ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle ... for The New York Times That ...