State officials announced Wednesday that California plans to add wine and liquor bottles to its recycling rebate program under a law taking effect in July 2024.
"California's bottle bill recycling program has needed fixing for 40 years," Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins said Wednesday."When you consider that California generates more than 1 billion wine and liquor bottles every year, that shows what major progress this legislation is and what an impact it will have."
Consumers in California pay a nickel each time they buy a 12-ounce bottle or can, and a dime for containers over 24 ounces . Aside from including bottles and cans containing wine or spirits, the new law adds a 25-cent deposit and refund for wine and distilled spirits sold in a box, bag or pouch. "While spirits bottles are already recycled at a high rate in the state of California, it is our hope the new law's incentive for consumers to participate will help increase that rate even more," said Adam Smith, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States' vice president of state government relations.
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