We write in support of SB 38, as amended June 20, 2022, which would correct an unintended wholesale exemption in California’s landmark postconsumer recycled plastic content law and make targeted improvements to the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act of 1987 to address contamination and fraud

CRI strongly support SB 353 to amend The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, with some  recommendations.

Summary: There is a “de minimis” provision in California’s recycled content law that, combined with other provisions of the California’s beverage container deposit law (“bottle bill”) and recent scrap prices, could unintentionally exempt most beverage manufacturers from having to comply with the recycled content law; thus nearly negating the entire intent of the law.

For more than 10 years, we have testified in support of modernization of Maine’s bottle bill. We have several concerns about LD 1910.

We are writing in support of AB 2779, “An act to amend Sections 14504 and 14560.5 of the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling, and making an appropriation…

CRI President Susan Collins testifies at a hearing of the Vermont Senate Committee on Finance in support of proposed legislation to expand the state’s bottle bill to cover more types of beverages. Susan previously testified to another State Senate Committee and a State House of Representatives committee on the legislation, which the House passed on March 29.

We strongly support Senate Bill 1037, “An Act Concerning Solid Waste Management.”  This bill modifies Connecticut’s beverage container deposit law (or “bottle bill’) in four stages.

We are writing to shed further light on anticipated revenues from unclaimed deposits that would accrue to the State of Vermont upon passage of H.175: “An act relating to the beverage container redemption system.”

We are writing in support of H.175, “An act relating to the beverage container redemption system,” which would update Vermont’s deposit law to include most non-carbonated beverage containers, and would raise the deposit to a dime.

We are writing in support of House Bill 1652, “An Act Relative to the Recycling of Beverage Containers.” This bill would establish a beverage container deposit law in New Hampshire, effective 1/1/23. 

We are writing in regard to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OLEM-2020-0443 with comments about the methodology the U.S. EPA uses in calculating national recycling rates, and how this methodology might be improved. Among other things, we will discuss how a combination of overcounting recycling and undercounting generation artificially inflates the recycling rate.

The Container Recycling Institute supports CalRecycle’s proposal to extend the Processing Payment Emergency Regulations for one year. The Emergency Regulations employ a 10% RFR (reasonable financial return) to calculate the processing payments that will be made to certified recyclers for 2021, in order to offset the difference between their operating costs and the revenues they take in from scrap sales and handling fees.

The bill would create a multi-stakeholder advisory commission charged with designing a framework for a beverage container deposit law in Maryland.

This bill would add alcoholic beverages of up to 100ml to the MA beverage container deposit law. Effectively, this means spirits sold in miniatures, or nips: the tiny bottles that are ubiquitous as litter strewn across the Commonwealth’s roads and streets, beaches, parks, fields, and other places.

We are writing in support of AB 793, which would require plastic beverage bottle manufacturers to make their bottles out of 50% recycled content by 2030, with intermediate goals to be reached incrementally.