PROVIDENCE – About a third of all the bottles, cans and other beverage containers that Rhode Islanders threw away last year never made it into the recycling stream. All told, more than 13,000 tons ...
Newport has 1,500 spots available for free curbside food scrap collection. More than 700 households have signed up, so there ...
PROVIDENCE – State legislators have introduced a trio of bills that came out of the work done by a special commission tasked with finding ways to reduce plastic b o ttle waste in Rhode Island. The ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee has introduced legislation aimed at incentivizing recycling statewide. Hagan McEntee’s legislation — described as a so-called “bottle bill” — would ...
Rhode Island Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee has introduced legislation (2025-H 6207) that would introduce a deposit return system (DRS) for beverage bottles and an extended producer responsibility (EPR) ...
Providence officials support a bottle bill, citing potential savings of over $600,000 annually in landfill tipping fees due to reduced contamination of recycling loads. Opponents, including beverage ...
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