High school students from New Rochelle put their environmental lessons to work on Tuesday, lobbying legislators at the Capitol for the Bigger Better Bottle Bill.

According to the Times Union, about 15 students from the New Rochelle High School environmental club joined met with officials to back a proposed 5-cent deposit on juice and water containers. Such containers make up 25 percent of drink sales but 60 percent of containers found in trash.

A bill before the Assembly and Senate would help steer empty containers back to manufacturers for re-use, avoiding the 80,000 tons of greenhouse gases used in creating new products, said Jennifer Kozlowski, the governor's special assistant for the environment. The original bottle bill, passed in the early 1980s, created a 5-cent deposit for carbonated drink and beer containers.