bottle bill

New York State – like the rest of the nation – is grappling with a growing solid waste crisis. Americans have never really tackled the incredible amount of trash that the nation generates. And until China reversed its decades-old policy of taking our trash, we got away with it.

Despite collecting thousands of signatures, there will be no ballot question

Vermont Governor Phil Scott has vetoed a bill intended to expand the state’s bottle redemption law.

Study finds only 38 percent of bottles and cans are returned for the deposit

Over a hundred evironmental groups are urging the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to enforce the plastic bag ban and bottle bill…

Ahead of his State of the State and budget address Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that a bottle bill expansion and plastic bag ban…

New York attorney general Barbara Underwood and Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe announced on Thursday the largest civil settlement in…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters have turned down a proposal calling for the first expansion of the state's bottle-deposit law since it took effect more…

Aside from choosing the next governor and other officeholders tomorrow, Massachusetts voters will face four ballot questions on Election Day. One of the…

An annual two -day cleanup of trash along the length of the Connecticut River is underway. The sponsors of the event, the Connecticut River Watershed…