Oregon’s 1971 bottle bill, the first of its kind, may soon be overhauled to limit late-night returns and add mobile sites. Lawmakers say the changes aim to reduce safety issues and public disorder ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Monica Truax has lived in her Portland home since 1992, on a cul-de-sac she described as a close-knit community. But since a bottle redemption center opened next door several years ...

Oregon lawmakers approved changes to the state's landmark bottle redemption law on Wednesday, allowing redemption sites that some say have become magnets for drugs and homelessness to refuse returns ...

Stephen Rines, manager of the West Bath Redemption Center in West Bath, Maine, examines a wine bottle before determining which sorting bin it belongs in. States are under pressure to increase their ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's bottle deposit will soon go from a nickel to a dime, an effort to raise redemption rates that have sagged in recent years. In 1971, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind ...