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FILE - In this June 6, 2017 file photo a worker collects recyclable items at Dodger Stadium after a baseball game in Los Angeles. A California state senator on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, ended his effort to pass a bill requiring beverage distributors to create a new system to take back their own containers, though advocates said they will keep pushing the issue this year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)

Bill requiring beverage makers to handle recycling dies

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 5, 2016, file photo, cans and plastic bottles brought in for recycling are seen at a recycling center in Sacramento, Calif. A consumer group is calling for improvements Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, in California's bottles and cans recycling program as state lawmakers prepare to consider changes. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California may require beverage makers to handle recycling

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2012 file photo, former Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward, right, talks with then Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Ceres, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Hayashi, who pleaded no contest to shoplifting while in her last term in the Assembly in 2012, is in a heated battle against Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, for the Senate District 10 seat.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Candidate on probation for shoplifting eyes Senate

By JUDY LIN - Associated Press