So how do you like Oregon’s Bottle Bill now? Now, that the law covers so many more beverages in addition to water, soft drinks and beer?
Bottle Bill: More empties to return
Written January 11th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Oregon has expanded its “Bottle Bill” deposit law to include more containers, and I’ve been wondering whether the system to redeem the empties can handle the additional load.
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Tags: Albany bottle drop, Cherilyn Bertges, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill, returning empties for deposits
Tags: Albany bottle drop, Cherilyn Bertges, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill, returning empties for deposits
Expect longer wait as deposit doubles
Written July 22nd, 2016 by Hasso Hering
The place was busy, so there was a bit of a wait Friday for people returning their empties at the Albany redemption center run by the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative. Chances are the waits will be more frequent and longer after next April, when the deposit under Oregon’s Bottle Bill doubles from a nickel to […]
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Tags: Bottle Drop, deposit returns, Oregon bottle bill, Reycycling Cooperative
Tags: Bottle Drop, deposit returns, Oregon bottle bill, Reycycling Cooperative
Take a look at new BottleDrop
Written August 20th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Here we are at the new bottle and can redemption center which the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative opened in Albany today, and Cherilyn Bertges is explaining how it works.
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Tags: Albany BottleDrop, Cherilyn Bertges, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill
Tags: Albany BottleDrop, Cherilyn Bertges, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill
“BottleDrop:” Why it matters
Written June 30th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Albany’s bottle and can redemption center has an Aug. 20 target date to open for business, and “so far we are on track,” Cherilyn Bertges of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative says. Why should anyone care? Because sooner or later, the Oregon Bottle Bill will demand recycling of more types of beverage containers, and the […]
Albany to get its “BottleDrop”
Written June 4th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
An ad by the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative in the University of Oregon’s magazine made me wonder whatever happened to the plans for a central redemption center in Albany. So I asked, and the news is that Albany will get one, probably by the end of August.
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Tags: Albany redemption center, bottle and can deposits, BottleDrop, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill
Tags: Albany redemption center, bottle and can deposits, BottleDrop, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill
In support of bottle redemption center
Written December 1st, 2013 by Hasso Hering
If the Albany planning staff has its way, there won’t be a Bottle Bill redemption center where the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative wants to put one. So let’s hope the staff’s reservations can be overcome.
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Tags: a, Albany Planning Commission, Albany redemption center, Albany zoning code, Oregon bottle bill
Tags: a, Albany Planning Commission, Albany redemption center, Albany zoning code, Oregon bottle bill
A “bottle bill” redemption center? Make it quick!
Written November 13th, 2013 by Hasso Hering
If you’re tired of having to wait your turn at the bottle-return stations of Albany supermarkets, you will welcome a proposal to establish a central redemption center of the kind already operating elsewhere in Oregon. The Salvation Army has asked the city to allow a “bottle bill” recycling center at the former and long-vacant Salvation Army thrift store […]
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Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill, Salvation Army
Tags: Albany Planning Commission, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill, Salvation Army
Second thoughts on returning empties
Is anybody else having second thoughts about the way we now are supposed to return empty drink containers to get our deposit back?
Tags: Bottle Drop, Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, Oregon bottle bill