Joseph Spector reports in today’s pressconnects.com - “A federal judge Wednesday issued an injunction that stops the state from charging a nickel deposit on bottles of water starting next week.

Bottlers last week filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the law from going into effect, saying they will not have enough time to implement it and put New York- specific bar codes on all bottles and cans.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Griesa agreed and ruled from the bench that the state and the bottlers need to work on a reasonable time frame to start the new law.

“This gives us some breathing room to set an effective date that will work,” said Tom Lauria, a spokesman for the International Bottled Water Association, one of the plaintiffs along with Nestle Waters North America, Inc. and The Polar Corporation.”

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