The Bottled Water Problem

May 19,09

Governor David Paterson and water companies like nestle has filed a lawsuit against imposing a deposit fee on water bottles. The law on water bottles requires distributors to collect 5 cents for each bottle of water. The money is then redeemed by consumers when they recycle the bottles. A universal product code label would be needed to added to bottles sold in New York. This law would encourage recycling of water bottles, but they companies are suing that it is not fair that beverages with sugar will not have a fee.
Although recycling water bottles would save a lot of of plastic and prevent landfills from being filled up quickly, I think many companies would start adding a little sugar to their bottles just to avoid the fee. Therefore, i think the new law would work at first, but then become ineffective. If all bottled drinks require a fee, recycling efforts would probably improve.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/nyregion/20bottle.html?_r=1