[SustainableTompkins] Fwd: [GreenYes] NYSAR Praises Governor Spitzer for Inclusion of Bottle Bill Expansion in Budget

[Thomas Shelley]

Dear Friends--Here is great news for recycling in New York State.  It's 
still plastic, but it's better to have it recycled than in the roadside 
ditch!   Tom

>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:08:32 -0500
>To: GreenYes at googlegroups.com
>From: Pete Wirth <pwirth2 at verizon.net>
>Subject: [GreenYes] NYSAR Praises Governor Spitzer for Inclusion of Bottle
>  Bill Expansion in Budget
>
>For More Information 
>Contact                                                            For 
>Immediate Release
>Jeff Cooper
>President, NYSAR3
>315-453-2866
>315-952-4597 cell
>jcooper at ocrra.org
>
>State's Recycling Organization Praises Governor Spitzer
>for Inclusion of Bottle Bill Expansion in Budget
>
>Syracuse, NY - The New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and 
>Recycling (NYSAR3) applauded Governor Spitzer for including the Bigger 
>Better Bottle Bill (BBBB) provisions in the budget he released today.
>
>"If these provisions are included in the final State budget they would 
>have an immediate impact on reducing the amount of litter on and in New 
>York's roads and waterways. It would also raise $100 million for the 
>State's environmental programs. A large portion of these funds would go to 
>support local recycling programs," said Jeff Cooper, President of 
>NYSAR3.  "More importantly, it would greatly increase recycling of 
>beverage containers."
>
>The provision would require that almost all beverage containers would have 
>a 5 cent deposit. The current law limits redemption to soda and beer 
>containers, or carbonated beverages. Currently, about 8 out of 10 
>containers that carry a deposit are recycled, while less than half of 
>non-redeemable containers are recycled.
>
>Increased recycling of beverage containers would save energy, reduce 
>emissions of greenhouse gasses, save natural resources and preserve 
>landfill space.
>
>"Aluminum cans and plastic bottles are in great demand by manufacturers," 
>said Jeff Edwards, NYSAR3's Legislative Committee Chair. "By increasing 
>recycling of these materials we are not only helping the environment, we 
>are helping the economy."
>
>Recycling beverage containers through the bottle bill system, rather than 
>through curbside collection, also often creates higher value materials. 
>Glass recycled from redemption systems is less contaminated and therefore 
>more likely to be to be made into new glass bottles.
>
>
>NYSAR3 is the New York State affiliate of the National Recycling 
>Coalition. It represents about one hundred and fifty recycling experts 
>from municipal, corporate and not-for-profit recycling operations as well 
>as those that strongly support recycling. NYSAR3's, www.nysar3.org mission 
>is to support recycling in New York State.


Tom Shelley
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present 
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own 
needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as 
growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean 
"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux proverb