who was the first state to enact a bottle deposit law?
A deposit initiator is the first bottler, distributor, dealer or agent to collect the deposit on a beverage container sold in New York State. You're a deposit initiator if you: 1  Bottle beverages in beverage containers with an established deposit. 2  Distribute beverages in beverage containers with an established deposit and you did not purchase the containers from a registered deposit initiator.