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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1978
Page
3
A Maine bottle deposit law, requiring a five cent deposit on beer and carbonated drinks, is credited with cleaner roadsides and parks. The author notes empty cans returned for refunds on a return trip, and praises the law's effectiveness observed by visitors and store staff.
An Ellsworth editor and Maine Audubon official discuss a five year litter survey showing a 77 percent drop in beer and soda litter along roads after the Maine container deposit law took effect. The measure, approved last November, requires post law containers to carry deposits and aims to shift toward recycling over refillables, with mixed views on job impacts and cross state shipping.
Media attorney James Proud was elected chairman of the Pennsylvania Young Republicans at the Seven Springs convention. Delaware County Councilman Harold F Haabestad was named chairman of the state Republican Party after the May primary. Both expect to influence the November governor race between Richard Thornburgh and William Scranton III versus Peter Flaherty and Robert Casey. Proud, 33, of Nether Providence, is a partner at Gibbons Buckley and Smith in Media and serves on the Wallingford Swarthmore School Board. He is married to Rebecca Wall and has three children.
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