Reports and Resources

Materials:

• Ten Reasons to Update the Bottle Bill
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• Update the Bottle Bill Poster (in Adobe Acrobat format)
• One page flyer (in Adobe Acrobat format) - These are helpful when you're canvassing. Run the two pages back-to-back.
• Sample Letters to the Editor - Use these to inspire your own.
• Sample article for your organization's newsletter - We'll be happy to help you write your article
• Sample letter to your state Senator and Representative - use our letter or write your own. Click here for a list of legislators.
• Sample city/town resolution - Ask your city councilor or alderman to sponsor this non-binding resolution
• Petition for canvassing - Use a separate one for each state representative's district. When you canvass, keep a dozen blanks.

Resources:

• Editorial: Boston Globe
• Editorial: Cape Cod Times
• Editorial: NJ Sierra on O'Leary's "New Jersey Plan"

Reports

• Renewing the Massachussets Bottle Bill: Constant Goals, Changing Times (PDF), Northeastern University.
• Businesses and Environmentalists Allied for Recycling (BEAR) Report
• Trashed Cans: The Global Environmental Impact of Aluminum Can Wasting in America (CRI)
• The Ten-Cent Incentive To Recycle
• Beverage Container Deposit Systems in the U.S. III

Other Websites with Bottle Bill Information

MASSPIRG - Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group

Container Recycling Institute