One thing may be found in nearly every household, business, beach, ball field, backpack, school cafeteria, and minivan: a plastic water bottle. Unfortunately, when folks can’t be bothered to recycle those bottles, they can also be found along roadsides, hiking trails, streambeds, and in landfills.
Soon, however, Connecticut legislators are hoping that will change. Thanks to an development of the state’s “bottle bill,” most containers for water and flavored water will have a refund value of at least five cents, just like most carbonated beverage bottles do now.
The changes were due to effect on April 1. But consumers are not possible to see the newly labeled bottles on shelves much before Oct. 1.
The new law states plastic or glass containers for “noncarbonated beverages” are now integrated in the bottle bill. These are defined as water, including flavored water, nutritionally enhanced water, and any beverage that is identified on a beverage’s product brand as a type of water, but excluding juice and mineral water.
That means items such as sports drinks, fruit juice, coffee drinks, and iced tea are not included.
Two categories of water containers are specially exempted. They are any container larger than three liters, and a few container made from high density polyethylene .
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