An updated bottle bill has been passed out of the legislature's Environment Committee.  Kent Representative Maria Horn says the  modernization of Connecticut’s bottle redemption program was one of the most challenging bills they worked on.  If approved, the measure would increase the redemption value from 5 to 10 cents per container and increase the handling rate paid to redemption centers.  Both rates were set nearly 40 years ago.  The proposal also expands the types of bottles and cans included in the program.  Newly included are wine and liquor bottles, but Horn says because package stores often do not have adequate floor space to hold redeemed containers this is not a mandate.  The committee is instead requiring the interested stakeholders--package stores, and wine and liquor distributors for example--to meet and come up with a plan to address the shared goal of getting these containers out of single-stream recycling, and off of roadsides and parks.