Help Maryland pass a Bottle Bill!

Support the Maryland Beverage Container Deposit Program: Each
year in Maryland, about 5.2 billion bottles and cans are sold, but only
1.2 billion are currently recycled. The rest are incinerated, buried in
landfills, or littered in our waterways and along roadways. Ten states
in the U.S., covering about 90 million people, have long-standing,
successful, and cost-effective beverage container deposit programs that
incentivize recycling and deter littering by refunding a small deposit
for each container to those who return them for recycling. A modern
program requiring a 10-cent deposit on single-use beverage containers
would boost Maryland’s recycling rate for beverage containers, from 23%
to more than 80%; remove about 3 billion beverage containers annually
from landfills, incinerators, or the environment; yield substantial cost
savings for local governments; and reduce the pollution associated with
producing containers.

Call or write to your senators and delegates in support of the bill!

Find your state senators and delegates here: https://maryland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=177afa87a67746a4ac5496b2d0897fb7

More info here: https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce/maryland-chapter/2015LegisFactSheets/Bottle%20Bill%20fact%20sheet%201-22-16.pdf