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• Position: STATELINE - Bottle deposit pay increase in Oregon - Brief article

Oregonians who earn money returning cans and bottles to stores to collect the deposits will get a 100 percent pay increase starting next year. It's the first "raise" since 1971, when the state enacted the first-in-the-nation bottle deposit of 5 cents. For the first 15 years, annual redemption rates were above 90 percent. But as of last year, the rate had fallen to just 64 percent, a drop most likely caused by the popularity of curbside recycling and the declining value of the...