A bigger and better bottle bill coming?

Coalition wants Hochul to expand landmark recycling law to raise deposits, add bottles

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER

Posted 2/3/22

For anyone who has lived in New York — even for a short time — chances are they’ve noticed rather regularly people traversing the streets with shopping carts filled with recyclables. But why would so many people spend so much time rifling through other people’s recycling bins, treating those collected bottles and cans as gold?

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