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California may require beverage makers to handle recycling

by Associated Press
| January 15, 2020 12:05 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — California lawmakers are considering upending the state’s struggling bottle and can recycling program by requiring beverage distributors to create a new system to take back their own containers, similar to one that has been successful in neighboring Oregon.

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