A trio of bills have been placed before Rhode Island state legislators in Providence as a result of a special commission charged with looking for ways to cut plastic bottle waste in the state.
The bills suggest to the General Assembly ways of increasing the state’s poor recycling rate. At present Rhode Island comes in at 26th among US states when it comes to recycling, with nine out of the 10 states sporting the highest recycling rates having enacted bottle bills of their own.
A two-prong approach is being considered; first reducing littering with an incentive for not discarding bottles and another to bolster the recycling process. One study suggests that litter in states without a bottle bill is twice that of litter per capita than those that do.
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One option offered is an extended producer responsibility program that would enact the segregation within the state’s waste system of Packaging materials. This would put the responsibility for the program on the shoulders of each company that uses the Packaging materials to deliver their goods.
While the extension of producer responsibility has the support of the legislative commission’s representatives of environmental groups, those groups will not throw their support behind a bill that does not contain a stand-alone bottle redemption program. Their reasoning being that without a cash incentive, efforts to alleviate the empty bottle litter problem will fail.
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