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A RESOLUTION
Recommending the Adoption of
Legislation Regulating the
Wholesale and Retail Sale of
Beverages in Returnable Containers
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston finds it in
the best interests of its citizens and the citizens of the State of
Illinois to limit, control, and decrease the creation of non -returnable
container wastes in order to reduce municipal solid waste collection
and sanitary landfill costs for economic and environmental benefits; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston does find that
regulating the wholesale and retail sale of beverages in returnable con-
tainers will foster and promote these benefits in Evanston and through-
out the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston does find that
such regulation is most effective when adopted on a regional or statewide
basis; and
WHEREAS, studies conducted in other states where legislation regu-
lating the sale of beverages in returnable containers has been adopted
indicate that such legislation effectively reduces beverage container
litter as well as the volume of solid waste generated and the costs of
solid waste disposal:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Evanston, Cook County, Illinois that it urgently recommends that the
General Assembly of the State of Illinois adopt legislation requiring
beverage containers sold in Illinois to be returnable with a refundable
deposit; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution be transmitted forth-
with to the Illinois State Legislators of the First and Eleventh Districts,
to Governor,.James Thompson, and to the chief elected officials of the City
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of Chicago and the municipalities which are members of the Northwest j
Municipal Conference.
AYTT IYor
�' Adopted: / ..•(; /it�� �� C�? 1980.