Letters to the Editor

Bottle-bill failure indicative of a state too lazy to succeed

The bottle bill was never properly implemented. Some bottles are and some aren't. Who decides which? Plastic water bottles litter our highways and streets. Only certain plastic soda bottles are returnable for deposit. The rest end up in a landfill or decompose in tall grass. The system doesn't work, so let's just get rid of it. Don't try to fix it. Then there will be more in landfills and streets and highways. State Rep. John Viola states that "people who are going to recycle are going to recycle." And I say that those who don't, won't. This is a lose-lose proposition. There are plenty of other states that do this successfully. We live in a lazy, don't-give-a-darn, it's-too-difficult-to-do state.

Jerry Barker, Wilmington

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