For 40 years, New York’s Bottle Bill has lived up to its promise. By placing a nickel bounty on containers of beer, soda and water, it’s kept litter off streets and roadsides and encouraged recycling ...

If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...

The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would allow people to return used bottles and cans for a deposit, reviving a local push for the recycling method after the bottling industry crushed a ...

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Bristol resident Chris Hayden said he never brought his used cans back to the supermarket to get the 10 cent deposit until he heard about a new way to return bottles and cans that he says is faster, ...

Most people see old Coke bottles as nothing more than empty containers destined for the recycling bin. They couldn't be more wrong. What started as Dr. John Pemberton's health tonic in Atlanta back in ...

Are you more likely to recycle a can of soda if you knew you would get money back to do it? That’s what some lawmakers are hoping. State legislators are currently mulling a new bill that would create ...