03/06/2026
🚨 NEW YORKERS: DO YOU WANT NEW YORK TAKING YOUR BOTTLE DEPOSIT MONEY? 🚨
Because that’s what is unfolding right now.
Redemption centers are disappearing across New York.
More than 200 redemption centers have closed in recent years, and we're now averaging approximately 55 closures every year Albany fails to act.
Every closure means:
❌ Longer drives to return bottles and cans
❌ Longer lines at remaining locations
❌ More stores refusing volume returns
❌ Lost jobs
❌ Lost fundraising opportunities for community groups
❌ New York keeping YOUR deposit money if you can’t redeem your containers
The reason is simple: redemption centers are still being paid a handling fee (by beverage companies—not you) that has remained stuck at 3.5¢ since 2009, while costs have more than DOUBLED.
Without immediate action, more closures are coming. Which means less access for you.
We are asking New Yorkers to contact legislative leaders TODAY and urge them to bring the Redemption Center Lifeline Bills (S5820A / A6267) to the floor for an emergency vote before the legislative session ends.
☎️ Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Phone: (518) 455-2585
☎️ Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
Phone: (518) 455-3791
Please call and tell them they need to protect your access to your deposit money by finally ensuring redemption centers get fair pay (via Lifeline Bills A6267 & S5820a) to stay open. Scripts available in comments.
Two minutes could help save a system that millions of New Yorkers depend on.
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