Jun 3, 2024
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Brought to you by New Yorkers for Better Recycling with support from American Beverage Association.
Brought to you by New Yorkers for Better Recycling with support from American Beverage Association.
New Yorkers For Better Recycling
New York’s bottle deposit system is broken. It’s outdated, financially unstable and more than $100 million worth of bottles are not returned each year.
It is one of the nation’s least efficient systems. In fact, in 2024, redemption rates fell statewide by one of the largest margins in the nation.
Fraud is costing the state tens of millions of dollars a year.
Redemption centers are in financial trouble. Costs to consumers and taxpayers keep going up.
We need to fix the state’s deposit program and avoid increasing costs on New York’s working families and small businesses.
NEW YORKERS DESERVE BETTER.
The current system is not working and a band-aid approach is not the answer.
Past proposals have doubled down on a failed system and only served to increase costs on working families and small and local businesses. This especially hurts small independent stores and bodegas that sell beverages. They could lose sales, risking jobs and job hours for employees and independent truckers.
Worse? These flawed proposals in Albany would have done nothing to prevent the spiraling fraud that is costing the state and New York businesses tens of millions of dollars a year.
We believe there is a better way to support recycling and improve environmental outcomes.
New York families are already struggling to afford their grocery bills. Small businesses, who are the lifeblood of our cities and economies, are struggling to get by. Now is not the time to increase their costs. Let’s work together to keep our communities clean without increasing grocery prices or harming hardworking families, local businesses or their employees at a time when they need relief.
IT’S TIME TO MODERNIZE NEW YORK’S RECYCLING SYSTEM.
Tell Your Legislator: It’s time for meaningful reform to strengthen New York’s bottle deposit system and we can do it without increasing costs for New Yorkers. We can reduce fraud and modernize our recycling system so it works for EVERYONE.