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My closing statement read: "There is only one real effective and incentive method to encourage environmentally sound collecting of beverage one-way containers and it is deposit in combination with High-Tech R&D resulted Reverse Vending Machines!"

It's time to pass the ´bottle bill´

Our state legislators all agree on the need for more jobs, especially "green jobs" that put people to work while helping the environment. Many of those legislators were on hand last week for a green jobs forum in Nashville sponsored by the University of Memphis' Papasan Public Policy Institute.

The irony is that on Tuesday some of those same legislators are prepared to vote against an extremely popular measure that will create an estimated 2,000 green jobs in Tennessee at zero cost to the government.

It's known as the "bottle bill" -- the 5-cent refundable deposit on beverage containers made of glass, plastic and aluminum. This bill will generate a network of small, self-supporting businesses called redemption centers. It will put people to work in transportation, processing, technology and manufacturing, and it will keep a quarter of a million tons of cans and bottles out of our landfills and off of our roadsides and riverbanks each year. We need to return Memphis to its former status as one of America's cleanest cities. Passing this bill is a step in that direction.

How do we know this? From 40 years of evidence in places that have such bills. Our 11 deposit states account for half of all container recycling in the U.S. and are considered vital to hundreds of manufacturers who rely on this high-quality material.

Passage of this bill may not keep everyone from throwing out their empty containers, but it will reward those who pick them up, and from the "target-rich environment" in Memphis, there is plenty for everyone.

Betsy Bird
Memphis

Source: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/mar/21/letters-to-the-editor-sunday/