News: Proposed law would direct funds from unredeemed bottles and cans to Maine lakes, farms

Not all money that comes from your 5 or 15 cent deposits when buying bottles is returned to you – annually this totals $10 to $16 million. Lake Stewards of Maine, the Maine Lake Protection Coalition, and many members of the public spoke at the capital to represent the importance of bill LD2141 for the preservation of lakes and farmlands.

The Maine Legislature is considering a bill that would dedicate $4 million annually from unclaimed bottle deposits to protecting Maine lakes and farmland: $2 million in unredeemed deposits to the Lake Water Quality Restoration and Protection Fund, and another $2 million to the Maine Working Farmland Access and Protection Program.

Read the story  Source: Maine Public Radio, by Molly Enking