2015 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 27 - COLLECTION, TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE AND OTHER SOLID WASTE
Title 10 - (27-1001 - 27-1019) LITTER AND SOLID WASTE CONTROL
27-1011 - Beverage container requirements.

27-1011. Beverage container requirements.
1.  a. Every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state
  shall clearly indicate by permanently marking or embossing the container
  or by printing as part of the product label  the  refund  value  of  the
  container and the words "New York" or the letters "NY".
b.  Such  embossing  or permanent imprinting on the beverage container
  shall be the responsibility of the person,  firm  or  corporation  which
  bottles,  cans  or otherwise fills or packages a beverage container or a
  brand owner for whose exclusive  account  private  label  beverages  are
  bottled,  canned or otherwise packaged; provided, however, that the duly
  authorized agent of any such person, firm or  corporation  may  indicate
  such  refund value by a label securely affixed on any beverage container
  containing beverages imported into  the  United  States.  Private  label
  beverages  shall  be  defined  as  beverages purchased from a bottler in
  beverage containers bearing a brand name or trademark for sale at retail
  directly by the owner or licensee of such brand name  or  trademark;  or
  through  retail  dealers  affiliated  with  such  owner or licensee by a
  cooperative or franchise agreement.
2. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
  sale, at wholesale or retail in this state, any metal beverage container
  designed and constructed with a ring  or  tab  which  is  detachable  in
  opening  the  container  unless  such  detachable part will decompose by
  photodegradation or biodegradation.
3. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
  sale in this state beverage containers connected  to  each  other  by  a
  separate  holding device constructed of plastic which does not decompose
  by photodegradation or biodegradation.