California's Bottle & Can Recycling Law--The Bottle Bill


The nearly 20 year history of the California Bottle Bill has demonstrated that the combination of consumer recycling incentives and a convenient recycling infrastructure will result in greater recycling.

Since 1988, Californians have recycled more than 10 million tons of aluminum, glass and plastic beverage containers. No other recycling program or policy in this state has resulted in higher recycling levels, and no program of its kind in the country has been found to be more cost effective.

Update: Big Gains for California Bottle Bill Recycling>>

In January 2007, the redemption value of most beverage containers was raised to 5 cents, thanks to CAW-sponsored AB 3056 in 2006, and has helped increased California's beverage container recycling rate to 71% for the first half of this year! Beverage container recycling in California prevents the emissions of nearly 300,000 metric tons of green house gases annually.

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