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Lincoln Chafee: “Let me say briefly, this. In my State I have always been a supporter of the bottle bill. But then it turns out that in…”

On the recordMay 12, 1995
Let me say briefly, this. In my State I have always been a supporter of the bottle bill. But then it turns out that in our recycling efforts, the thing that makes the recycling effort go is the fact that the recycling center is able to earn money from the aluminum cans. It is the big money earner for the recycling center and helps carry everything else. So in our State, we will not want a bottle bill where you would make a deposit and bring it back to the central place and get your refund because that would deprive our recycling centers of this constant flow of very valuable income. But that may be a unique situation.
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
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Discussing the implications of a bottle bill on recycling efforts in his state.

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