COLUMBIA, SC – March 10, 2011 – Amid blue bins and carts, schoolchildren with signs, economic impact posters, artwork, and about seventy-five attendees; political, recycling-industry and conservation leaders promoted a new ABC recycling bill and announced the economic impact of recycling to the state earlier today in the lobby of the Statehouse.
Senator Ray Cleary (R-Georgetown) discussed his bill (S.461) which calls for establishments that are permitted for on-site consumption of alcohol to implement a recycling program in the next two years for plastic, corrugated cardboard, aluminum and glass.