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Committee backs bill to limit out-of-state redemption and study fixes after 10¢ bottle law created fraud issues
Summary
SB 516 would create mechanisms to discourage out-of-state bottle and can redemptions that have surged since Connecticut raised the deposit to 10¢, while preserving the 10¢ rate; committee advanced the bill amid debate over whether industry-led product stewardship (SB 457) is a better long-term solution.
The committee advanced SB 516, a bill intended to address unintended consequences from raising the bottle-deposit redemption fee to $0.10, including what lawmakers described as organized out-of-state redemptions and fraud that impose costs on Connecticut distributors and ratepayers.
Senator Fonfair summarized the problem: after Connecticut increased the per-container redemption to 10¢, people and organized collection efforts from neighboring states…
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