The Vermont Senate this morning sustained Governor Scott’s Veto of H. 158, “The Bottle Bill.” The vote was 17-13.
The “Bottle Bill” seeks to expand Vermont’s bottle deposit law, giving bottlers and businesses more responsibility to keep more recyclables out of landfills and including more types of beverage containers such as plastic water bottles and glass wine bottles.
State Senator Anne Watson, who voted to override, told the Chronicle, “Most Vermonters support an expansion of the bottle deposit program because it’s proven to have worked. The system needs to be updated.”
State Senator Russ Ingalls told the Chronicle: “This was a huge win for all Vermonters. Especially low income. Can you imagine someone that only has a mode of transportation by bus, bagging up 4-5 more bags of bottles?”
The Senate sustaining the veto follows the House’s override earlier this session.
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YEAH!!
Wow, something they didn’t do…
I was kinda hoping it would pass. Picking bottles out of the trash is one of my retirement incomes. A raise would have been nice
Wow, the governor really calling the shots now, he won big on the bottle bill…that’s standing your ground! (sarcasm) Too bad more meaningful veto actions haven’t survived.
As a small wine business, this would have been a major problem if this bill was as passed. Thank you to the 17 Senators including both Republicans and Democrats that supported the veto.
“Most Vermonters support an expansion of the bottle deposit program because it’s proven to have worked. The system needs to be updated.”
I would like to see the polling figures on that, not just the conjectures of VPIRG or VNRC. It had always bothered me that a value and class judgement was made with the original bottle law that accepted that beer and soda drinkers are more likely to litter than the consumers of wine and bottled water, but that is obviously so. See democrats…sometimes stereotypes are based on reality.
Honestly though, is there really a problem with too many glass wine bottles on the roadsides that warrants this kind of additional hassle placed on consumers? Thank you to the Senate members who let common sense prevail and thank you Governor Scott for taking a stand against yet another expense and inconvenience saddling us ordinary folk, even us who enjoy beer, cider and wine equally.
You are 100% correct. I asked numerous members of the House and Senate to tell me how many wine bottles they had ever picked up on the side of the road. “None” is the correct and universal answer. This was NEVER about the environment. It was an attempt at yet another cash grab. I’m glad common sense prevailed, a rare occurrence here in Vermont.
This kind of busybody legislation is never about saving the planet or beautifying the roadsides…it is all about CONTROL and leftist virtue signaling…about having their day in the sun being interviewed on the steps of the statehouse by an MSNBC crew.
They perjured themselves anyway when putting their intent for the bill on record, so it would have been an illegal bill even if it passed. Great side effect of unqualified elected officials.
it is a shame that all glass is not crushed and used for other needs //// it all ends up in the landfill dump serving no purpose///
Folks at the voting booth! You Vermonters
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Wake up Americans wake up Vermonters!!
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Trump already had 4 years. What did he do? Are you being tricked by the government scam? Sure Trump can talk a lot of childish trash about other people, but he doesn’t do anything different than the democrats. Every year, every president does the same thing, only worse (red or blue). It doesn’t matter who it is. Trump spent WAY more money than than Obama spent. Trump put us in way more debt than Obama. Trump made more illegal gun laws than Obama made. Trump gave way more power to the big pharma than Obama. Trump did nothing to decrease spending on active wars. Trump built an expensive wall that did absolutely nothing for no reason, that could be easily cut with battery powered equipment. Trump surrounded himself by RINOS and never drained any swamp. We are still feeling the trumpflation, part of the reason everything is so expensive and difficult to live. Just as we are still feeling obamaflation today. As well as bushflation and clintonflation.
Think Trump will give you what you want? Think again. It’s called the trick of the Devil. Look for actions, not words.