Oregon bottle redemption rate reaches 90 percent

BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, which oversees the state’s bottle deposit program, says about 90 percent of the containers covered by the plan were returned and redeemed in 2018. That’s a jump of around 35 percent over where the figure stood just two years ago. The Bulletin reports Oregonians recycled around […]