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Bottle Tax: Improve Recycling Rates Around Chesapeake Bay, or Inconvenience?

The General Assembly is considering bills in the House and Senate that would require consumers to pay a refundable deposit on all cans and bottles.

By Caroline Woodall, Capital News Service

In an effort to reduce trash and increase recycling, the General Assembly is considering bills in the House and Senate that would require consumers to pay a refundable deposit on all cans and bottles.

 

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