Originally Posted by rickdogood

Yes:
Currently there are 11 States with Bottle Deposit Laws.
They are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon & Vermont.
The deposit amount ranges from 2.5 cents to 15 cents depending on size and whether the bottle can be recycled.
Another 10 States are considering enacting a bottle bill. These are
Arizona, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee & West Virginia.
Also, a bottle bill has been languishing in the U.S. Congress for years.

I understand that Arlen Spector has a financial interest in a soda distribution company and this may be one reason for the delay in Congress and why Pennsylvania is not even considering it.

14 yrs ago, while in New York State, I was surprised how easily stores handled these returns. Some did it manually, others by machine.

As the Keystone State we should long ago have enacted this bill. We should be ashamed with 2 surrounding States already doing it, and with at least 3 more neighboring States in process.

If we, private citizens demanded action today this law would go into effect.
It’s not as if our representatives have to write the law, they merely have to photocopy an existing one from another State.