{"id":3883,"date":"2014-08-27T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2014-09-09T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:22:29","slug":"support-the-updated-bottle-bill-ballot-initiative-vote-yes-on-question-2-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/support-the-updated-bottle-bill-ballot-initiative-vote-yes-on-question-2-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Updated Bottle Bill Ballot Initiative – Vote “Yes” on Question #2 in November!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that on November 4th you will be asked to vote on the Updated Bottle Bill? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>What is The Bottle Bill:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Bottle Bill is the nickel deposit on beverage containers. It has been in effect since 1982, and has become a model for other states and countries around the world to help cope with the large amounts of litter and waste created by the bottling industry.\u00a0 <\/span>Since the Massachusetts Bottle Bill became law in 1982, dramatic changes have occurred in the beverage market. Sales of \u201cnew\u201d beverages such as juices, iced tea, sport drinks, and bottled water have vastly increased.\u00a0<\/span>Because the Bottle Bill does not yet cover these drinks, millions of these containers wind up as litter or in our landfills and incinerators, costing cities and towns money in expensive disposal fees.\u00a0 <\/span>Advocates began urging the legislature to update the deposit law in 2000. Each year, under intense pressure by the beverage industry, the bill stalled. In the last few years, the State Senate successfully passed the bottle bill update, just to see the measure scuttled in the House.\u00a0 <\/span>After careful consideration, the advocates decided to undertake the process to put the Bottle Bill Update on the 2014 ballot. \u00a0They successfully fought off legal challenges from big business, and gathered the needed signatures to put the updated bottle bill on the November 4th ballot<\/span> as a referendum question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Green Needham Collaborative has endorsed the Updated Bottle Bill and encourages you<\/em> <\/span>to support this measure by voting YES on Question #2 on the November Ballot.\u00a0<\/strong> As a town, we are a model community for Recycling and we already recycle many more products than most communities.\u00a0 However, this bill is an important step towards standardizing the recycling of products currently not covered by the Bottle Bill of 1982. It would encourage recycling of water bottles, sports drinks, juice and tea bottles by requiring a deposit on those containers. <\/span><\/p>\n

We see this bill as having two major benefits for Needham residents. <\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 To reduce waste and energy consumption<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 As another step towards good stewardship of the environment and the planet.\u00a0 Plastic bottles are made of petroleum.\u00a0 It is estimated that the Updated Bottle Bill will save the equivalent of 6.2 million barrels of oil per year in the US through recycling efforts<\/span><\/p>\n

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Frequently Asked Questions:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Information\u00a0Supporting the Updated Bottle Bill:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/massbottlebill.org\/wp\/?page_id=38<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/eea\/agencies\/massdep\/recycle\/reduce\/top-5-reasons-mass-needs-expanded-bottle-bill.html<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Information Opposing\u00a0the Updated\u00a0Bottle Bill:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/massbottlebill.org\/wp\/?page_id=94<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The 209 Cities and Towns Currently Supporting the Update<\/span><\/span><\/strong>d Bottle Bill as of July\u00a031, 2014:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Abington \u2022 Acton \u2022 Acushnet \u2022 Adams \u2022 Alford \u2022 Amherst \u2022 Andover \u2022 Aquinnah \u2022 Arlington \u2022 Ashburnham \u2022 Ashfield \u2022 Ayer \u2022 Barnstable \u2022 Barre \u2022 Becket \u2022 Bellingham \u2022 Berkley \u2022 Berlin \u2022 Bernardston \u2022 Beverly \u2022 Billerica \u2022 Blackstone \u2022 Blandford \u2022 Bolton \u2022 Boston<\/strong> \u2022 Bourne \u2022 Boxborough \u2022 Braintree \u2022 Brewster \u2022 Bridgewater \u2022 Brimfield \u2022 Brookfield \u2022 Brookline \u2022 Buckland \u2022 Burlington \u2022 Cambridge<\/strong> \u2022 Carlisle \u2022 Carver \u2022 Charlemont \u2022 Charlton \u2022 Chatham \u2022 Chester \u2022 Cohasset \u2022 Colrain \u2022 Concord \u2022 Conway \u2022 Cummington \u2022 Dalton \u2022 Dartmouth \u2022 Dedham<\/strong> \u2022 Dover<\/strong> \u2022 Dudley \u2022 Dunstable \u2022 Duxbury \u2022 East Brookfield \u2022 East Longmeadow \u2022 Eastham \u2022 Easthampton \u2022 Easton \u2022 Egremont \u2022 Erving \u2022 Everett \u2022 Fairhaven \u2022 Falmouth \u2022 Fitchburg \u2022 Foxborough \u2022 Gill \u2022 Grafton \u2022 Granby \u2022 Great Barrington \u2022 Greenfield \u2022 Hamilton \u2022 Hampden \u2022 Hanson \u2022 Harvard \u2022 Harwich \u2022 Hawley \u2022 Heath \u2022 Hingham \u2022 Holbrook \u2022 Holland \u2022 Holliston \u2022 Hubbardston \u2022 Hull \u2022 Huntington \u2022 Ipswich \u2022 Kingston \u2022 Lancaster \u2022 Lawrence \u2022 Leicester \u2022 Lenox \u2022 Leominster \u2022 Leverett \u2022 Lexington \u2022 Littleton \u2022 Ludlow \u2022 Lunenburg \u2022 Malden \u2022 Manchester-by-the-Sea \u2022 Mansfield \u2022 Marblehead \u2022 Mashpee \u2022 Maynard \u2022 Medfield \u2022 Medford \u2022 Medway \u2022 Middleborough \u2022 Middleton \u2022 Milford \u2022 Millis \u2022 Milton \u2022 Monson \u2022 Montague \u2022 Monterey \u2022 Montgomery \u2022 Nahant \u2022 Natick <\/strong>\u2022 New Ashford \u2022 New Bedford \u2022 New Braintree \u2022 New Salem \u2022 Newburyport \u2022 Newton<\/strong> \u2022 Norfolk \u2022 North Adams \u2022 North Andover \u2022 North Reading \u2022 Northampton \u2022 Northfield \u2022 Norton \u2022 Norwell \u2022 Norwood \u2022 Orange \u2022 Otis \u2022 Palmer \u2022 Peabody \u2022 Pelham \u2022 Pembroke \u2022 Peru \u2022 Petersham \u2022 Pittsfield \u2022 Plainfield \u2022 Plymouth \u2022 Plympton \u2022 Provincetown \u2022 Quincy \u2022 Randolph \u2022 Raynham \u2022 Reading \u2022 Rehoboth \u2022 Rockport \u2022 Salem \u2022 Sandisfield \u2022 Saugus \u2022 Scituate \u2022 Seekonk \u2022 Sharon \u2022 Sheffield \u2022 Shelburne \u2022 Sherborn<\/strong> \u2022 Shirley \u2022 Somerville \u2022 South Hadley \u2022 Southampton \u2022 Southbridge \u2022 Southwick \u2022 Springfield \u2022 Sterling \u2022 Stockbridge \u2022 Stoneham \u2022 Stoughton \u2022 Sturbridge \u2022 Sudbury \u2022 Sunderland \u2022 Templeton \u2022 Tewksbury \u2022 Tisbury \u2022 Truro \u2022 Tyngsborough \u2022 Wales \u2022 Walpole \u2022 Ware \u2022 Wareham \u2022 Warren \u2022 Warwick \u2022 Washington \u2022 Watertown \u2022 Webster \u2022 Wellesley<\/strong> \u2022 Wellfleet \u2022 Wendell \u2022 Wenham \u2022 West Boylston \u2022 West Newbury \u2022 West Tisbury \u2022 Westfield \u2022 Westford \u2022 Westhampton \u2022 Westport \u2022 Westwood<\/strong> \u2022 Weymouth \u2022 Whately \u2022 Whitman \u2022 Williamsburg \u2022 Williamstown \u2022 Winchendon \u2022 Winchester \u2022 Worcester \u2022 Worthington \u2022 Wrentham<\/span><\/p>\n

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