Bottle Bills in the News
South Carolina
August 22, 2011 We got an amazing number of calls and emails commenting on last week’s column, primarily on the animal abuse and the “bottle bill” that will be coming up next session. ...Some of the emails we received on the bottle bill were absolutely masterful. They represented several different takes on how to encourage recycling of beverage bottles, as well as examples of unintended consequences of different laws in other states. Bluffton Today
August 15, 2011 The late state Rep. Harriet Keyserling of Beaufort, almost 40 years ago, proposed a “bottle bill” for South Carolina. Oregon, in 1971, had passed the nation’s first bottle- and can-deposit law. Keyserling apparently thought the Palmetto State progressive enough to follow suit. This was laughably erroneous thinking. Bluffton Today
