Arecent national survey by the Northeast Recycling Council of the states and District of Columbia found that banning materials, rather than requiring recycling, is the strategy of choice for most states. Almost every state - Oklahoma was the only non-responding state to the survey - has at least something banned from disposal at its solid waste facilities, at a minimum lead acid batteries (see Table 1). By contrast, only 20 states have mandatory recycling of at least one commodity. When bottle bill laws are included in the definition of mandatory recycling, the number of mandatory recycling states increases to 26.
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