The Bottle Bill
It's hard to believe, but it’s been 30 years since Massachusetts passed its groundbreaking bottle bill – the law that made it mandatory to put a 5-cent deposit on soda cans and bottles of beer. But that was before the prevalence of bottled water and other new market beverages – in fact, the deposit law now only covers about 40 percent of beverage containers. Some lawmakers want to change that by extending the 5-cent deposit to virtually all beverages including water bottles, wine and hard liquor – it’s an idea being met with resistance in some quarters and here to unpack the issue are Christopher Flynn of the Massachusetts Food Association and Janet Domenitz of MassPIRG.
80% of deposit bottles are currently recycled.
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The Bottle Bill is about taking responsibility for your empties so they get recycled rather than littering our landscapes and clogging our landfills. The nickel deposit gets returned to responsible consumers, and pays the homeless to pick up after the irresponsible ones. Why should our tax dollars be used to pick up after litterbugs?
The Bottle Bill is about taking responsibility for your empties so they get recycled rather than littering our landscapes and clogging our landfills. The nickel deposit gets returned to responsible consumers, and pays the homeless to pick up after the irresponsible ones. Why should our tax dollars be used to pick up after litterbugs?
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