Hey, NY, It's been more than 40 years. Time for an update! @bottlebill.bsky.social

This is your chance to make a difference! Join our call on Wednesday to get involved with this campaign.

📊 Our new report exposes the 4-to-1 lobbying advantage industry giants used to block #NewYork's Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act. But 73% of New Yorkers support it. Who will #Albany lawmakers listen to? ➡️ bit.ly/prria-lobbying

Come learn about the Bottle Bill next Wednesday 9/24 at @surewecannyc.bsky.social to mark #ClimateWeekNYC

Sugar water (aka Tropicana Strawberry Lemonade) containers carry a deposit in Maine, Hawaii, Oregon and California but, sadly, not New York. Makes no sense!

Redeeming cans is indeed a great hustle, as this viral video shows. Sadly its only half as good in NY as in CT(where this video was made) which increased their deposit to 10 cents a few years ago. www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Sure We Can is doing a tour + happy hour + Bottle Bill education session tomorrow night and space is available, please sign up here and help us spread the word.

No summer breaks at @surewecan Every day, recyclers are hustling for that 5 cents.

Container redemption is part of the economy in NYS, and you’ll find plenty of pop-up redemption centers, like this one in Hollis, Queens

“We know what to do to reduce …litter, waste, and plastic in the ocean,” It’s called the bottle bill. It’s just got to be modernized.” - Janet Domenitz, MASSPIRG

We met Inez, 78 years old, as she collected cans near the Army Terminal in Sunset Park. When we mentioned that it must be a good hustle a retired person like her, she corrected us. “I’m not retired,” she said. Indeed.

“You are going to see less beverage container litter on the ground either because that person has taken it in for redemption or somebody else will find the container and take it in for redemption.” - Susan Collins, @containerrecycling.bsky.social

Hydration drink? Electrolyte beverage? Ice Tea? Kombucha? None of this stuff is currently covered under New York’s bottle bill. That needs to change.

Can collectors are working hard across NYC this summer, and if your eyes are open, you can’t miss them. Thank you, Xian-jong (on Upper 5th Ave, Manhattan)

Billy is an independent recycler we spoke to on 5th Ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn - just one of thousands of folks doing this work across NYC.

Senator @agounardes.bsky.social will you help us clean up the waterfront in your district by supporting the Bigger Better Bottle Bill?

For New York canners, a dime could make all the difference, @gaeacabico.bsky.social reports. While the cost of living in New York has soared, the deposit on a bottle remains just 5 cents. The “Bottle Bill” could reshape conditions for canners, many of whom are immigrants & people of color.

“It has been 5 cents since it was first introduced in 1982, but officials tell CBS News New York's John Dias a change is long overdue”

“Advocates say the Bigger Better Bottle Bill would not only benefit canners and struggling families but also deliver significant financial and environmental gains for New York City and state.” cc @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social

We're drowning in plastic. #NEWYORK ASSEMBLY: Don't fall for industry misinformation. Please put people over plastic and pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social @deborahjglick.bsky.social

Connecticut increased its bottle deposit from 5 cents to 10 cents (also expanded the covered containers) four years ago. NY lawmakers need to simply look at what happened in their neighboring state!

A new report by @reloop.bsky.social sheds light on the dramatic, positive impact that Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) can have on reducing beverage-related litter.

Do you see the Gatorade Zero bottle in this public trash can? No deposit was paid on it, its worth nothing, no canner will pick it out. Instead, this bottle is bound for the landfill, and we taxpayers will pay to have it hauled there. This needs to change.

Cry of fraud is a smoke screen for opposition to updated NY bottle bill (Your Letters)

“Deborah Glick, who chairs the Assembly Environmental Conservation commitee, told Newsday the democratic majorty has been discussing its priorities and she was encouraged by the additional days, adding ‘now I’m really hopeful’”

Take a look for yourself some day. On nearly every block of NYC you’ll find public trash cans with empty beverage containers, to be landfilled by the city instead of put back into the circular economy.

How does the Bigger Better Bottle Bill save cities money? For one, by keeping them from having to collect, haul, and landfill empty containers, like these, from public trash cans

It’s simple - updating the Bottle Bill will help make our streets and parks and rivers cleaner @surewecannyc.bsky.social @riverkeeper.org @weact4ej.bsky.social

“There's also a push to reform the state's bottle deposit system , a fight that's dragged on for years. Sponsor Assemblywoman Deborah Glick said at a rally Monday that advocates need to be bold and loud to garner attention in a short amount of time.”

“For years, environmental advocates and owners of bottle redemption centers have been calling on the state legislature to pass the Bigger, Better Bottle Bill. They’re hoping that 2025 will be the year it gets done.”

We’ll keep going back to Albany as often as needed until the Bigger Better Bottle Bill gets passed, thank you Assembly Members Epstein, Phil Ramos, Burdick, Kassay & of course Chair @deborahjglick.bsky.social

250 people and a great day yesterday in Albany, amazing work @nypirg.bsky.social @beyondplastics.bsky.social @greenwatchdogny.bsky.social @surewecannyc.bsky.social @deborahjglick.bsky.social #itstimeforadime

Yesterday at the Capitol Sure We Can joined forces with 250+ grassroots advocates from all over the state to tell our representatives to pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill and Packaging Reduction Act! ♻️📢 It's time for a dime!! bb40.org

Reporting all day from Albany with 250 other activists. Gracias @senatorharckham.bsky.social for your steadfast passion in support of the Plastics Reduction Act and the Bigger Bigger Bottle Bill @beyondplastics.bsky.social

Found lots of bottles (and cigarette butts, and plastic straws, and other trash) at the @riverkeeper.org Sweep 2025 with @weact4ej.bsky.social in Upper Manhattan today, beautiful day and great event! Video to come #Riverkeepersweep

All these brands that are currently not included in the bottle bill end up in our waterways and landfills. Please sign our petition to @leaderasc.bsky.social in support of the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. We have 6 weeks of legislative session left. www.change.org/p/new-york-n...?

Estimates from @reloop.bsky.social are that the BBBB will save 5.4 billion bottles and cans yearly, enough to overflow Yankee Stadium. This only happens if we raise the deposit from a nickel to a dime, which should increase redemption rates to near 90%. @leaderasc.bsky.social

Despite their pledged support for a “circular economy”, Coke and other beverage companies have been lobbying against bottle bills, across the US and around the world, for more than 40 years. This video explains.

Updating New York’s 40‑year‑old “bottle bill” could save local governments up to $109 million a year. Learn more: www.news10.com/news/ny-news...

The Bottle Bill was not originally imagined as a work program for some of our most marginalized workers. But that is what it has become. Clean streets + a little income for people like Sergio, from Soundview Bronx. It’s time for 10 cents for people like him.

Thx @beyondplastics.bsky.social for inviting us to today’s packed screening of the film “Plastics People” at Yonkers Library @leaderasc.bsky.social’s district Thank you Assembly Member Shimsky for supporting the bill!

Questions about the Bottle Bill and why it is like a “beautifully coordinated dance?” This great video from @reloop.bsky.social & @containerrecycling.bsky.social explains. vimeo.com/223692398

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