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point is that the? beverage industry took these initiatives to shift from itself responsibility for cleaning up the mess it creates, and place it on the taxpayers and public spirited volunteers.
The entire thrust of its lobbying effort has been to minimize the expense and inconvenience to beer and soft drink manufacturers and distributors.
To this end, for a decade, they have bitterly resisted the one meaningful item of legislation * which would have virtually eliminated the main source of highway trash.
That item is, Qtfie enactment of a returnable container bill for the state.
A returnable container bill, commonly called a Bottle Bill, would require a deposit on all beer and soft drink bottles and cans.
Such a measure will again be introduced in the' 1983 session of the General Assembly by Sen. Madison Marye, (D-Montgomery).
Under Marye’s bill, a 10 cent deposit would be required on all beverage containers. The purchaser could recover his dime by returning the container.
If he chooses to toss it out of his pick-up truck window, it would probably be quickly retrieved by ‘someone who would be only too happy to turn it in and get the dime. In any case, it would not remain on the highway for-long. The whole idea styulsthe
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