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Bill advances to require recyclables bin at certain businesses

A bill requiring certain retail food establishments to provide containers, accessible to customers, for recyclable items is moving through the General Assembly.  The Environment Committee this month voted 22 to 7 to place the proposal on the House calendar for further consideration. The requirement applies to establishments that sell food for consumption both on and off their premises and beverages in recyclable bottles or aluminum cans.

 

Designated recyclable items include cardboard, boxboard, glass and metal food containers, containers of three gallons or less made of certain types of plastic, and other items.

 

By law, everyone who generates solid waste from a non-residential property must separate recyclable items from other solid waste.

 

Several Greater Danbury area lawmakers are members of the Environment Committee.  Committee Co-chair New Milford Senator Craig Miner voted against the bill.  Brookfield Representative Stephen Harding also opposed the legislation.  Redding Representative Adam Dunsby and David Arconti of Danbury voted in favor of the proposal.

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