Oregon Bottle Bill

Task Force
November 2007 - October 2008

In 2007 the Oregon Legislature enacted Senate Bill 707 to expand the Oregon Bottle Bill by adding a five-cent beverage container deposit to water and flavored water beverage containers. In addition, the bill created a nine-member Bottle Bill Task Force to make recommendations to the Legislature on ways the Oregon Bottle Bill systems could be improved.

DEQ helped staff the task force and provided information and analysis to help with the task force’s deliberations. Although no legislation was enacted in 2009 as a result of task force recommendations, the task force work formed the background that in large part lead to passage of House Bill 3145 by the 2011 Oregon Legislature. Below are links to the Bottle Bill Task Force final report and to some of the information and analysis provided by DEQ to the task force. These documents will not be updated since they pertain to the task force’s work in 2007-08, but in many cases the trends and analyses shown in these documents are still of value today.

• Bottle Bill Task Force Final Report
• Background presentation 2007
• Other bottle bill states tour presentation (2MB)
  Also available in sections:
  • Introduction
  • British Columbia
  • California
  • Maine
• State Comparison Redemption Centers 2007
• Glass Recycling Under Curbside Collection and Bottle Bill - June 20, 2008 Cover Memo
• Glass Recycling Through Curbside Collection and Container Deposit Legislation - June 20, 2008
• Modeling Energy and Greenhouse Gas Savings from Implementing Bottle Bill Task Force Recommendations - Revised
• Fraud problems and protections
• Estimated disposal, recycling and redemption of beverage containers for 2005

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