Endorsers of a "Bigger Better Bottle Bill" support expanding New York's current bottle law to include non-carbonated beverages and requiring that unclaimed deposits be returned to state or local governments to fund environmental programs. Some groups also support increasing the deposit to ten cents. Groups and government entities listed do not necessarily endorse specific legislation.
NATIONAL, STATE & REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Adirondack Council
Adirondack Mountain Club
Agricultural Stewardship Association
Alliance for Clean Energy New York
Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future
American Environmental Health Studies Project
American Farmland Trust
American Littoral Society, Northeast Chapter
American Lung Association of New York State
American Water Resources Association
Appalachian Mountain Club
Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks
Association of Towns in New York State
Audubon New York
Catskill Center for Conservation and Development
Center for Working Families
Citizen Action of New York
Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
Coalition of Living Museums (100+ organizations)
Conservation Alliance of New York
Consumers Union
Container Recycling Institute
Ducks Unlimited
Empire State Consumers Association
Environmental Advocates of New York
Environmental Defense
Fiscal Policy Institute
Friends of New York’s Environment
The Garden Conservancy
GrassRoots Recycling Network
Great Lakes United
Highlands Coalition
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Hunger Action Network of New York State
INFORM
Invasive Plants Council of New York
Izaak Walton League of America
JustGreen Partnership
Kids Against Pollution
Land Trust Alliance
League of Women Voters of New York State
Long Island Drinking Water Coalition
Long Island Environmental Voters Forum
Long Island Farm Bureau
Long Island Neighborhood Network
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Nature Conservancy
New York City Audubon Society
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
New York City Waste Prevention Coalition
New York Conference of Mayors
New York Conservation Council
New York Farm Bureau
New York Flora Association
New York League of Conservation Voters
New York Parks and Conservation Association
New York Public Interest Research Group
New York State Association of Counties
New York State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section
New York State Conservation Council
New York State Episcopal Public Policy Network
New York State Greens
New York State Nurses Association
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)
New York Water Environment Association
New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness
New Yorkers for Parks
N.Y.S. Urban and Community Forestry Council
NY Trout Unlimited
New York/New Jersey Trail Conference
Open Space Council
Open Space Institute
Open Space Preservation Trust
Parks & Trails New York
People's Environmental Network of New York
Regional Plan Association
Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks
Riverkeeper, Inc.
Save the River
Scenic Hudson
Sierra Club
Sisters of Charity New York
The Trust for Public Land
United States Lifesaving Association
Urban Trail Conference
Wildlife Conservation Society
Working Families Party
Local Organizations
1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition
A Better Chance of Fayetteville-Manlius
Accabonac Protection Committee (East Hampton)
Adirondack Land Trust
Adopt-A-Cemetery (Mohawk)
Albany Presbytery
Alley Pond Environmental Center (Queens)
Ancient Order of Hibernians (East Meadow, Levittown, Wantagh)
Aquarium of Niagara
Arbor Hill Environmental Justice Corp.
Astoria Residents Reclaiming our World (ARROW)
Babylon Village Earth Day Committee
Bayport Civic Association
Bellport Beach Property Owners Association
The Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park
Boquet River Association (Elizabethtown)
Brentwood/Bay Shore Breast Cancer Coalition
Broad Channel Civic Association
Bronx Council for Environmental Quality
Bronx River-Sound Shore Audubon Society
Brooklyn Bird Club
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Greens
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
Buffalo Audubon Society
Buffalo Coalition of Community Gardeners
Buffalo Organics
Buffalo Zoo
Cancer Awareness Coalition (New Paltz)
Center for Community Alternatives
Center for Energy and the Environment at the N.Y. Institute of Technology
Central Queens Green Party
Central Westchester Audubon Society
Christ's Church (Guilderland)
Citizens Action Committee west
Citizens for a Clean Environment (Oswego)
Clean New York
Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor
Coalition to Save the Woods
Coastal Steward (Long Island)
Columbia Land Conservancy
Community Health and Environmental Coalition of Long Island
Concerned Citizens of Bensonhurst
Concerned Citizens of Montauk
Concerned Residents of North Salem
Concerned Residents of Southeast
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cortlandt WATCH
Delaware Highlands Conservancy
The Diving and Peoples Union (Yonkers)
Dutchess Land Conservancy
Earth Day New York, Inc.
Earth Friends
East End Forever
East Hampton Trails Preservation Society
Eastern Long Island Audubon Society
El Puente
Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady
Environmental Justice Action Group of WNY
Environmental Quest, Inc. (Brooklyn)
Federated Conservationists of Westchester County
Finger Lakes – Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance
Finger Lakes Land Trust
Fire Island Year Round Resident Association
First United Presbyterian Church (Troy)
Four Harbors Audubon Society
Four Point Rod & Gun Club, Inc.
Friends of Baiting Hollow Beach (Riverhead)
Friends of the Bay (Oyster Bay)
Friends of Brook Park
Friends of the Edgewood Preserve (Deer Park)
Friends of the Harbor (Port Jefferson)
Friends of Hempstead Plains
Friends of Hudson River Park
Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt
Friends of Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge
Great South Bay Audubon Society
Green Party of Erie County
Green Point of New York
Greenburgh Nature Center
Greenworker Cooperative
Group for the East End
Harlem Tenants Council
Hiking Long Island
H.O.P.E. Environmental Club (Garden City)
Hopewell Junction Citizens for Clean Water
Hudson Highlands Land Trust
Hudson River Audubon Society of Westchester
Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition
Jamesville Positive Action Committee (JAMPAC)
Keep Rockland Beautiful, Inc.
Land Restoration Project
League of Women Voters of Bedford/Lewisboro/North Salem
Lake George Land Conservancy
League of Women Voters of Rensselaer County
League of Women Voters of Suffolk County
Learning Disabilities Alliance of Western NY
Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference, Inc.
Long Island Invasive Species Management Area
Long Island Pine Barrens Society
Manitoga, Inc.
Manlius Library
Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy
Mohonk Preserve
Morningside Heights./West Harlem Sanitation Coalition
Mother Earth Community (Rochester)
Mountain Top Arboretum
Nassau Land Trust
Natural Resources Protective Association (S.I.)
New York Botanical Garden
New York Katipunan Lions Club (Hollis)
North Fork Audubon Society
North Fork Environmental Center
North Fork Environmental Council
North Shore Audubon Society
North Shore Land Alliance
Operation SPLASH (Stop Pollution, Littering and Save Harbors)
Orange County Land Trust
Orange Environment
Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods
Osprey Club (Broad Channel)
Otsego County Conservation Association
Otsego County Burn Barrel Education Committee
O.U.T.R.A.G.E. (Organizations United for Trash Reduction and Garbage Equity)
Patchogue Rotary
Peconic Baykeeper
Peconic Land Trust
Pickit Up Long Island
Picture the Homeless (NYC)
Pomona Clean-Up Squad
Port Washington Parks Conservancy
Prevention is the Cure (Huntington)
Project HOUSE (Rochester)
Protectors of Pine Oak Woods (S.I.)
Queens Botanical Garden
Rensselaer County League of Women Voters
Rensselaer County Residents for the Bigger Better Bottle Bill
Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington
RochesterEnvironment.com
Rockaway Beach Civic Association
Rockland County Conservation Association
Roosevelt Island Garden Club
Saratoga P.L.A.N.
Save Open Space Now 2000
Save the Pine Bush (Albany)
Saw Mill River Audubon Society
Saw Mill River Coalition
Seatuck Environmental Association (Islip)
Seedcorn, Inc.
Serpentine Art and Nature Commons
Shoreham Civic Association
Sisters of St. Joseph (Syracuse)
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (Harlem)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Port Washington)
Sons of the American Legion Post 1711 (Levittown)
Southampton Baymen’s Association
Southampton Trails Preservation Society
South Shore Audubon Society
Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Coalition
Staten Island Citizens for Clean Air
Staten Island Friends of Clearwater
Staten Island Greens
Staten Island Zoo
Sterling Forest Partnership
Sterling Nature Center
Stop Polluting Orleans County (SPOC)
Suffern Civic Association
Surfrider (NYC, LI, and NJ Chapters)
Sweetbriar Nature Center
Tanglewood Nature Center and Museum
Teatown Lake Reservation
Thousand Islands Land Trust
Three Village Community Trust
Torne Valley Preservation Association
Town of Manlius Coalition
Troy Area Labor Council
Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust
Tully United Community Church
Upper West Side Recycling
Utica Citizens' Action
Utica Zoo
Vision Long Island
Wading River Civic Association
Walkill Valley Land Trust
Warwick Smart Growth Alliance
Wave Hill
W. Haywood Burns Environmental Educ. Center
WE CAN
West Branch Conservation Association (New City)
West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT)
West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition
Westchester Land Trust
Westchester Peoples Action Coalition (WESPAC)
Woodstock Land Conservancy
STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS
Governor David A. Paterson
N.Y.S. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
N.Y.S. Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
New York State Assembly
LOCAL OFFICIALS, AGENCIES, AND BOARDS
Albany Common Council
Albany County Legislature
Amherst Town Board
Angola Village Board
Former Auburn Mayor Melina A. Carnicelli
Binghamton City Council
Former Brookhaven Town Supervisor John Jay LaValle
Chautauqua County Legislature
Cheektowaga Conservation Advisory Council
Cheektowaga Town Board
Chenango County Envl. Management Council
Cortland Common Council
Croton-on-Hudson Village Board
Dutchess County Legislature
Erie County Legislature
Essex County Government Center
Evans Conservation Advisory Council
Geneseo Town Board
GLOW Regional Solid Waste Committee (Genesee, Livingston, Orleans & Wyoming)
Greene Co. Soil & Water Conservation District
Hamburg Village Board
Huntington Town Board
Hyde Park Visual Environment Committee
Inter-County Association of Western New York
Kent Town Council (Putnam County)
Kingston Common Council
Former Lackawanna Mayor John Kuryak
Madison County Board of Supervisors
Village of Massena Board of Trustees
Monroe County Legislature Democratic Caucus
Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi
New Paltz Town Beautification Committee
New Paltz Village Board
Ocean Beach Village Environmental Commission
Onondaga County Legislature
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
Onondaga Town Board
Orangetown Town Board
Otsego County Board of Representatives
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Plattsburgh Town Board
Poughkeepsie Common Council
Putnam County Solid Waste Office
Rensselaer County Legislature Democratic Caucus
Riverhead Town Board
Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy
Rockland County Legislature
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe
Schuyler County Legislature
Skaneateles Town Council
Smithtown Supervisor Patrick R. Vecchio
Southampton Town Board
Steuben County Public Works Committee
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy
Suffolk County Legislature
Suffolk County Water Authority
Syracuse Common Council
Ulster County Legislature
Utica Common Council
Tompkins County Legislature
Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano
Woodstock Environmental Commission
New York City:
N.Y.C.Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr.
N.Y.C. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum
Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr.
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall
Staten Island Borough Pres. James P. Molinaro
Joint Task Force of the Mayor and City Council on New York City's Recycling Program
Community Board 1 (Staten Island)
Community Board 3 (Staten Island)
Community Board 8 (Manhattan)
Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board
Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board
New York City Soil & Water Conservation District
Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board
BUSINESSES, LABOR UNIONS & PROFESSIOAL ASSOCIATIONS*
Adirondack Plastic Laminates (Galway)
Artism, LLC
Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers*
Barbland Farms (Fabius)
Blue Moon Dressing (Saratoga Springs)
Bottle and Can Redemption Association of New York State (BACRA)
Bottle Babes (Binghamton)
Bridgehampton National Bank
C&G Redemption Center (Whitehall)
Caz Returnables (Cazenovia)
Central City Bottle Redemption Center (Syracuse)
Cinder Track Bicycles (Livingston Manor)
Educators for Gateway/United Fed. of Teachers Outdoor Environmental Education
Elementary School Science Association of N.Y.
Empire State Beer Distributors Association
Enviro-Tech Environmental Services (Victor)
EZ Bottle and Can Return (Fairport)
Federation of New York Solid Waste Associations
F-M Returnables (Manlius)
Fingerlakes Returnables (Seneca Falls)
Great Forest, Inc.
Haverstraw Marina
Honest Weight Food Coop (Albany)
Julius Petersen Boatyard (Upper Nyack)
Laborers Local 108 (Recycling & General Industrial Laborers)
M-T Net Company (Poughkeepsie)
Mason Tenders District Council PAC
Mirant Corporation
Mountaintown Spring Water (New Paltz)
N.Y.S. Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3)
N.Y.S. Association for Solid Waste Management
N.Y.S. Public Employees Federation
N.Y.S. United Teachers (NYSUT)
Oneida Street Redemption (Utica)
Owens-Illinois, Inc.* (Auburn)
Pepacton Natural Foods
Phoenix Beverages (Long Island City) *
Puretech Plastics (East Farmingdale)*
Recycling in Communities, Inc. (Brentwood)
The Sagamore (Bolton Landing)
Schuyler Yacht Basin
Solid Waste Association of North America – NY
Strategic Materials (Syracuse)
Whole Foods
Willows Yacht Club
Wyoming County Redemption Center
(*Note: companies marked with an asterisk support expansion only)
COLLEGE AND YOUTH GROUPS
List of over 200 scout troops and elementary, high school, and college groups available upon request.
NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL BOARDS
List of more than 100 newspaper editorials that have been published in support of updating New York’s Bottle Bill available upon request.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Albany Times Union
Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin
Buffalo News
Daily Orange
El Diario
Gloversville Leader Herald
Journal News
Kingston Daily Freeman
Lewisboro Leger
Metroland
New York Times
Newsday
Niagara Gazette
The Northender
Oneonta Daily Star
Plattsburgh Press-Republican
Poughkeepsie Journal
Queens Courier
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Saratogian
Schenectady Daily Gazette
Staten Island Advance
Syracuse Post Standard
Troy Record
Utica Observer Dispatch
Waste News