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Table of Contents

NEWS ANALYSIS

• Aluminum -- Can Waste Squanders Energy,
  Recycling rate hits 12-year low
• BEAR Pursues Bottle and Can Waste, Setting 80 Percent Recycling Goal
  By LANCE KING
• Plastic Bottle Waste Dramatically Exceeds Recycling in 2000
• Shareholders Press Beverage Industry to Increase Recycling:
  Coke Commits to Small Steps, Pepsi Snubs Effort
  By LANCE KING
• National News Brief

STATE UPDATE

• State Summary
• Oregon: Nation's First Bottle Bill Turns 30
• Hawaii: Hawaii Poised to Adopt Bottle Bill
  By LANCE KING
• Missouri: New Attack on Local Deposit Ordinance
• Connecticut: Legislation Expanding Program Passes Environment Committee, Then Stalls
• California: Ups and Downs in First Year of Expanded Deposit Program
• Iowa: Future of Bottle Bill at Stake
  Expansion or Repeal?
• Massachusetts: Energy Committee Holds Hearings on Bottle Bill Proposals
• Puerto Rico: Bottle Bill Introduced in Senate
• Michigan: Leading Conservation Group Calls for Expanding Beverage Deposit Law
• Kentucky: Stumbo Will Have Another Go at Amendment

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• "Ecologically damaging packaging" target for deposits in Germany

CRI EDITORIAL: Lessons from the "Greatest Generation"