Bill #: HB 2773 SB 370
Primary Sponsors
Senate: Senators McCabe (D-Kanawha), Foster (D-Kanawha), White (D-Webster), Wells (D-Kanawha) and Stollings (D-Boone)
House: Delegates Fleischauer (D-Monongalia), M. Poling (D-Barbour), Hatfield (D-Kanawha), Fragale (D-Harrison), Hamilton (R-Upshur), Brown (D-Kanawha), Tabb (D-Jefferson), Miley (D-Harrison), Manchin (D-Marion), Beach (D-Monongalia), Canterbury (R-Greenbrier)
Amount of Deposit: 10¢
Containers Covered: All airtight beverage containers of glass, aluminum, or plastic, under 1 gallon (excluding dairy products)
2007 was a busy year for the WV bottle bill campaign and the bills.
WV-Citizen Action, along with Friends of the Lower Greenbrier River, sponsored a survey to the state's more than 900 Adopt-A-Highway volunteers. Over one-half returned the survey with 81% indicating they would support the WV Bottle Bill. Only 11 groups (2%) said they would not support such legislation and the remaining 16% were unsure and wanted to know more. Several Adopt-A-Highway groups decided to cancel their annual clean-ups as a response to the WV legislature's failure to take up the Bottle Bill during the 2007 Legislative Session. For more on the survey results and other information, please visit www.wvbottlebill.org.
Lead sponsor Delegate Barbara Fleischauer led an Earth Day clean-up in and around the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown. Beverage containers were collected in clear bags and other trash was put in dark bags. Beverage container litter outnumbered all other trash by a 3:2 ratio. Students called on Governor Joe Manchin to put his support behind the WV Bottle Bill by mailing him empty plastic bottles picked up during the event.