Oregon’s Bottle Bill reaches huge milestone — more than 2 billion containers redeemed in 2022

• This brief article discusses Oregon's Bottle Bill, what the law has accomplished, and the future of this law's implementation.
• Students will learn that Oregon's Bottle Bill is a decades-old program that pays citizens to recycle, that this law has removed a large amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the program's next steps will make it easier for people to earn money from recycling.

Positives

• This article is concise and easy for high schoolers to understand.
• This article provides exact data that is useful for comprehension.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to have a basic understanding of climate change.
• Students should know the following words: redemption, litter, distributor, metric tons, and fossil fuels.
  

Differentiation

• This article could supplement a lesson on different solutions to the global climate crisis.
• After reading the article, the teacher could lead a classroom discussion on how students can fight climate change on an individual level.
• This article could augment a lesson on the Oregon government's effectiveness at dealing with climate change.
• This article could enhance a discussion on how governments could provide financial incentives to encourage citizens to live more sustainably.
  

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