A bottle bill deserves to pass the R.I. General Assembly. Here’s why beverage brands think so.

A bottle bill deserves to pass the R.I. General Assembly. Here’s why beverage brands think so.

Bottles and cans to be redeemed at a recycling center in New York City are shown. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Rhode Island has a major opportunity to modernize and reform its recycling system with two common-sense bills currently before the legislature. H6207 sponsored by Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee, a South Kingstown Democrat, and S 996, sponsored by Sen. Mark McKenney, a Warwick Democrat, would establish a modern Deposit Return System –  a.…