Links

• A Bigger, Better, Bottle Bill: NYPIRG's campaign page
• New York State Assembly
• Other bottle bill campaigns

Resources

• New York Bottle Bill in the News
• Look up New York bills
• New York's existing deposit law
• New York Campaign History

Announcements

• Responsibilities of distributors under the 2009 amendments [pdf,106kb]
• Bigger Better Bottle Bill part of Spitzer's Tax Cut Plan
• DiNapoli's Bigger Better Bottle Bill passes assembly - From environmental committee newsletter, December 2005

Polls and Surveys

• 2007 Litter Survey [PDF,696kb]
• Survey of New York Registered Voters: Attitudes Toward New York's Bottle Bill and Proposed Reforms By Public Policies Associates, Inc., February 2004
• Poll summary [pdf,148KB]

Reports

• Campaign Contributions and Lobbying Expenditures Keep Bigger Better Bottle Bill Bottled Up in Albany [PDF, 508 Kb] June 2004
• Scenic Hudson's Litter Sweep - June 2002

Policy Statements/ Persuasive tools

• Letter from NY Environmental Groups to legislators on amendments to the bottle law - May 2009
• Better Bottle Bill: There's still time to sign! [YouTube video] March 2008
• CRI Statement in Support of Expanding the Bottle Bill [PDF,98kb] February 2007
• Plastic Bottle Recycling in New York State [pdf] April 2006
• Rebuttals to arguments against the bottle bill [pdf,86kb] April 2006
• CRI Testimony in Albany [PDF,113Kb] January 2004
• What's Wrong With New York's Bottle Bill? [PDF,364Kb] CRI Presentation at NYFSWA Conference, May 2003
• Put the Bottle Bill to work for New York [pdf,108Kb] March 2003
• CRI's Sample Resolution Urging the New York State Legislature to enact an updated and expanded Bottle Bill [PDF,62kb] 2003

Events

• Tom Suozzi cleans up litter in support of the Bigger Better Bottle Bill - May 2008
• Can & Bottle Collectors demand their rights! [PDF,119kb] April 2005