bottle bill

The bill would mean that redemption centers would have to do much less sorting than they do today. And a new, nonprofit cooperative would manage the collection program statewide.

The legislature’s watchdog agency is recommending that lawmakers do a comprehensive review of the state’s bottle deposit law, passed first by voters at…

Advocates of Maine’s 40-year-old bottle deposit law are concerned about a proposal to lower the deposit on liquor bottles from 15 cents down to five…