For now, there will be no expansion on New York state’s recycling laws to include a deposit on bottles of water. It’ll cost the state tens of millions of dollars that it needed to balance the budget.

But it would have done so in a rather unconstitutional manner.

Writing in the New York Times today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls the New York bottle bill, which singled out bottled water, a “boondoggle.”

Kennedy is in favor of a deposit bill so long as it impacts ALL users of plastics and doesn’t just single out one industry. At Bottled Water Matters, we’re typically not in favor of bottle bills, but if lawmakers are gonna do it, the law ought to be fair for all.

The wise folks who run parks in Vancouver, British Columbia have decided against banning bottled water. Why? They can’t afford to.

From the Vancouver Sun…