| 单词 | bottle bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle bill bottle bill n. U.S. a legislative bill that ordains the reuse of bottles; spec. any of several state laws that require deposits to be paid on certain drinks containers (esp. glass bottles and aluminium cans) in order to encourage recycling. ΚΠ 1959 Bennington (Vermont) Evening Banner 11 Mar. 1/6 (heading) Bottle Bill Defeat Is Requested... Defeat of a bill that would reinstate Vermont's ban on disposable beer bottles was recommended today. 1970 Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, Montana) 12 Mar. 4/5 The bottle bill..which we are introducing today... will encourage bottlers to package..[their] product in ‘deposit’ containers which are returnable to the bottler. 1990 Garbage Nov. 48/2 Spurred by the passage of a cluster of bottle bills.., the aluminum-can recovery rate has grown. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 June 22/2 The company says..it favors laws that would include water bottles in deposit-driven recycling plans... Such ‘bottle bill’ efforts are a pet issue for many environmentalists. < as lemmas |
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