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Mike Kessel, owner, Beverly (Mass) Bottle and Can

It's true: The proposed Tennessee Recycling Refunds Act will create at least 500 small Tennessee businesses--primarily redemption centers--and it will net at least 1,500 new Tennessee jobs in collecting, sorting, transportation and primary processing. These numbers don't include many more jobs ("indirect" or "induced") that will be supported by redemption centers and redemption-center workers. And it doesn't include the manufacturing jobs created when industry suddenly has a steady supply of high-quality scrap glass, plastic and aluminum.