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- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to including wine and water bottles as returnable beverage containers, in relation to requiring state accounting of returnable beverage container revenues, in relation to creating the youth conservation corp program; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the youth conservation corp fund
Purpose
To require a deposit on all beverage containers, such as water bottles, wine bottles, and non-carbonated beverage containers, and will provide the necessary incentive for the economically efficient and benign collection and recycling of such containers.
Summary of provisions
Section 27-1001 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 200 of the laws of 1982, is amended to require a deposit on all beverage containers. These containers will include" bottled water, wine, and wine products...", "malt beverages" etc., pursuant to subdivision 1 and 6 of section 27-1003 of the environmental conservation law.
Justification
Discarded bottles and cans, especially beverage containers is a growing problem of state concern and a direct threat to the health and safety to the citizens of this state. Discarded beverage bottles and cans create a hazard to vehicular traffic, a source of physical injury to pedestrians, farm animals and machinery, and an unsightly accumulation of litter which must be disposed of at increasing public expense. These bottles and cans create an unnecessary addition to the state's and municipalities' already overburdened solid waste and refuse disposal systems.
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Effective date
The first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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