Pending changes to bottle recycling law will divert juice, vegetable containers from trash

California lawmakers have approved an update to the state’s bottle recycling law that will add an estimated 200 million containers per year into the recycling stream by including fruit and vegetable juice containers.

Senate Bill 353, proposed by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, was approved by the state Legislature last week and now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.