The 11 states with bottle bills account for more than 60 percent of the PET plastic recycled in the United States.

NPR: Battle over Method Thwarts Bottle Recycling

Bottle bills have been extremely effective at increasing recycling rates, but Washburn points out that they only deal with bottles, whereas EPR gets at the broader issue: packaging writ large.

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