Bottle Bills in the News
Tennessee

Bottle Bill sensible on many levels (Opinion) Marge Davis

November 26, 2011 To paraphrase the Geico gecko, Would 15 minutes of your time be worth 1,500 new Tennessee jobs? What about 500 small businesses? Or 5 billion cans and bottles not buried in our landfills and not dumped on our roadsides? Knoxnews.com

'Bottle bill' means cleaner, stronger state
Legislation would help Memphis stop having to spend taxpayer money to remove and dispose of beverage container litter. (Opinion) By James H. Baker

October 21, 2011 Since mid-July, more than 200 volunteers, many of them local college students, and with tremendous help from Memphis City Beautiful, the Port Commission and others, have spent part of three Saturdays picking up about four tons of recyclable materials from the shoreline of McKellar Lake. Memphis Commercial Appeal

GIVING BACK: Local recyclers rule By Louise Gorenflo

September 26, 2011 ...Following up on last month’s column on glass recycling, Marge Davis, stalwart point person for the Tennessee Bottle Bill, reports that the state legislature will have another opportunity to approve a five cent deposit for beverage containers. Crossville Chronicle

 

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