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May 17, 2024
POLITICO | Bottle Bill Woes
Nick Reisman via Politico
May 17, 2024
BOTTLE BILL WOES: A dozen Black clergy members are urging state lawmakers not to take up an expansion of the state’s bottle deposit law to include containers for wine, liquor, hard cider, non-carbonated teas and sports drinks.
Their concern: Adding more bottles for deposit would increase grocery bills.
“We are all too aware that the cost of living in New York continues to rise, leading to families being priced out of neighborhoods they have called home for years,” the clergy members wrote in a letter obtained by Playbook.
The opposition is only the latest blow to the measure. Last week, the influential New York State AFL-CIO signaled it opposed the bottle deposit expansion as well. — Nick Reisman